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280 that it be made known to the person arrested and that he be provided with a copy of it.

78. A warden or jailer cannot receive or detain any person except after having copied upon his register the document which orders the arrest: this document must be a warrant given in the forms prescribed by the preceding article, or an order of arrest, or a decree of accusation, or a judgment.

79. Every warden or jailer is required, without any order being able to dispense therewith, to present the arrested person to the civil officer having in charge the police of the prison, whenever he shall be required to do so by that officer.

80. The production of the arrested person cannot be refused to his kinsmen and friends bearing the order of the civil officer, who shall always be required to grant it, unless the warden or jailer presents an order of the judge to keep the person in secret.

81. All those who, not having received from the law the power to make arrests, shall cause, sign or execute the arrest of any person; all those who, even in cases of arrests authorised by law. shall receive or retain the arrested person in a place of confinement not publicly and legally designated as such; and all the wardens or jailers who shall contravene the provisions of the three preceding articles, shall be guilty of the crime of arbitrary imprisonment.

82. All severities employed in arrests, imprisonments or executions, other than those authorised by the laws, are crimes.

83. Any person has the right to present individual petitions to any constituted authority, and especially to the Tribunate.

84. The public force is essentially obedient; no armed body can deliberate.

85. Military offences are subject to special tribunals and to special forms of trial.

86. The French nation declares that pensions shall be granted to all soldiers wounded in the defence of the fatherland, as well as to the widows and children of soldiers dying upon the battlefield or from the effects of their wounds.

87. National rewards shall be conferred upon the warriors who shall have rendered distinguished services in fighting for the Republic.