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Rh 364. All persons are free to address petitions to the public authorities; but they shall be individual; no association can present them collectively, except the constituted authorities, and only for matters appropriate to their province.

The petitioners must never forget the respect due to the constituted authorities.

365. Every armed mob is an attack upon the constitution; it shall be dispersed immediately by force.

366. Every unarmed mob shall likewise be dispersed, at first by way of verbal command, and if necessary by the display of armed force.

367. Several constituted authorities can never unite in order to deliberate together; any document emanating from such a meeting cannot be executed.

368. No one can wear distinctive badges which recall functions formerly exercised or services rendered.

369. The members of the legislative body and all the public functionaries wear in the discharge of their functions the costume or symbol of the authority with which they are invested: the law determines the form thereof.

370. No citizen can renounce in whole or in part compensation or salary which is assigned to him by law, on account of public functions.

371. There is uniformity of weights and measures in the Republic.

372. The French era commences September 22, 1792, the day of the foundation of the Republic.

373. The French nation declares that in any case it will not permit the return of the French who, having abandoned their fatherland since July 15, 1789, are not included in the exceptions contained in the laws against the émigrés; and it forbids the legislative body to create new exceptions upon this point.

The estates of the émigrés are irrevocably acquired for the profit of the Republic.

374. The French nation likewise proclaims, as a guarantee of the public faith, that after a legally consummated award of national lands, whatever the origin thereof, the lawful acquirer cannot be dispossessed of them; saving to third claimants, if there be need, indemnification by the national treasurer.