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 fusionists. The committee, however, in publishing their version, modified and changed the wording, without giving any notice to the mayors, making it read:

"The Central Committee of the National Guard to which the deputies, mayors, and adjoints of Paris have rallied, being convinced that the only way to avoid civil war, and also strengthen the Republic," etc.; whereas the proper wording and the one agreed to, read: "The deputies of Paris, the mayors, and the elected adjoints, reinstalled in the mairies of their arrondissements, and the members of the Central Federal Committee of the National Guard, convinced that in order to prevent civil war and the effusion of blood, as well as to strengthen the Republic, it is necessary to proceed immediately to the elections, convoke the electors for Sunday in their respective colleges.

"Signed by the representatives of the Seine present in Paris—

"E. Lockroy, Ch. Floquet, G. Clémenceau, Tolain, and Greppo—also by some of the mayors and adjoints."

A deputation was sent to inform the Government of this resolution, and a notice was forwarded to the National Printing Office, and posted up in the evening.

M. Tiraud, mayor of the second arrondissement, also issued from Versailles an address, in which he announced that being convinced of the imminent necessity for the measure, he had just signed, with several deputies for Paris, a demand presented by M. Louis Blanc to obtain from the Assembly a declaration to justify the course adopted by the mayors and adjoints. We have seen in what manner this demand was rejected by the Assembly.

Six deputies of the Assembly, nominated from Paris, published the following proclamation to the electors on the eve of the election: