) "The criminal court will try
and execute the principal criminals; the rest of the inhabitants will
abandon their houses in twenty-four hours, and take their furniture
along with them. The town will then be burnt. All rebuilding or
tillage of the soil is forbidden. The inhabitants will be apportioned
among neighboring communes; nobody is allowed to leave the commune
assigned to him under penalty of being treated as an emigr?. All must
appear once every ten days at the municipality under penalty of being
declared 'suspect' and imprisoned."
[107] "Recueil de Piec?s, etc.," I., 52. (Carret de Beudot and La
Coste, Pluvi?se 6, year II.) "Whereas, it being impossible to find
jurors within an extent of one hundred leagues, two-thirds of the
inhabitants having emigrated." - Moniteur, Aug.28 and 29, 1797.
(Report by Harmand de la Meuse.) - Ibid., XIX., 714. (Session of
Vent?se 26, year II., speech by Baudot.) "Forty thousand persons of
all ages and both sexes in the districts alone of Haguenau and
Wissembourg, fled from the French territory on the lines being
retaken. The names are in our hands, their furniture in the depot at
Saverne and their property is made over to the Republic.
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