" In the meantime, through still more comprehensive
orders issued in the provinces, Paganel in the department of Tarn, and
Dartigoyte in those of Gers and the Upper-Garonne,[88] enjoin each
commune to establish public granaries. "All citizens are ordered to
bring in whatever produce they possess in grain, flour, wheat, maslin,
rye, barley, oats, millet, buckwheat" at the "maximum" rate. Nobody
shall keep on hand more than one month's supply, fifty pounds of flour
or wheat for each person; in this way, the State, which holds in its
hands the keys of the storehouses, may "carry out the salutary
equalization of provisions" between department and department,
district and district, commune and commune, individual and individual.
A storekeeper will look after each of these well filled granaries; the
municipality will itself deliver rations and, moreover, "take suitable
steps to see that beans and vegetables, as they mature, be
economically distributed under its supervision," at so much per head,
and always at the rate of the "maximum." Otherwise, dismissal,
imprisonment and prosecution "in the extraordinary criminal tribunal.
"-This being accomplished, and the fruits of labor duly allotted,
there remains only the allotment of labor itself.
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