To effect this,
Maignet,[89] in Vaucluse, and in the Bouches du Rh?ne, prescribes for
each municipality the immediate formation of two lists, one of day
laborers and the other of proprietors. "All proprietors in need of a
cultivator by the day," are to appear and ask for one at the
municipality, which will assign the applicant as many as he wants, "in
order on the list," with a card for himself and numbers for the
designated parties. The laborer who does not enter his name on the
list, or who exacts more than the "maximum " wages, is to be sentenced
to the pillory with two years in irons. The same sentence with the
addition of a fine of three hundred livres, is for every proprietor
who employs any laborer not on the list or who pays more than the
"maximum rate of wages.
After this, nothing more is necessary, in practice, than to
* draw up and keep in sight the new registries of names and figures
made by the members of thirty thousand municipal boards, who cannot
keep accounts and who scarcely know how to read and write;
* build a vast public granary, or put in requisition three or four
barns in each commune, in which half dried and mixed grain may rot;
* pay two hundred thousand incorruptible storekeepers and measurers
who will not divert anything from the depots for their friends or
themselves;
* add to the thirty five thousand employees of the Committee on
Provisions,[90] five hundred thousand municipal scribes disposed to
quit their trades or ploughs for the purpose of making daily
distributions gratuitously; but more precisely, to maintain four or
five millions of perfect gendarmes, one in each family, living with
it, to help along the purchases, sales and transactions of each day
and to verify at night the contents of the locker.
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