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COMMISSION DES RELATIONS EXTÉRIEURES.

Les citoyens: Delescluze, Ranc, Paschal Grousset, Ulysse Parent, Arthur Arnould, Ant. Arnauld, Ch. Girardin.

COMMISSION DES SERVICES PUBLICS.

Les citoyens: Ostyn, Billoray, J. B. Clément, Mardelet, Mortier, Rastoul.

COMMISSION DE L'ENSEIGNEMENT.

Les citoyens: Jules Vallès, Docteur Goupil, Lefèvre, Urbain, Albert Leroy, Verdure, Demay, Docteur Robinet.

Also the following proclamations:

"The Central Committee has remitted its powers to the Commune.

"COMMUNE OF PARIS.

, 29th Mar., 1871.

":—Your Commune is constituted.

"The vote of the 26th of March has sanctioned the victorious revolution.

"A cowardly aggressive power had taken you by the throat. You have in your legitimate defence repulsed from your walls this Government which wished to dishonor you by imposing upon you a king.

"To-day these criminals, whom you have no desire to pursue, abuse your magnanimity in organizing, even at the gates of your city, a monarchical conspiracy. They invoke civil war; they set at work every corruption; they accept all accomplices; they have dared even to ask aid from the foreigner. We cite these execrable underhand plotters to judgment before France and before the world."

":—We are about to confer on you institutions that will defy all attacks.

"You are masters of your destinies. Strong in your