10, before 9 o'clock in the morning.] [Footnote 3123: Official reports of the commune, Aug.21.

"Considering that, to ensure public safety and liberty, the council-general of the commune required all the power delegated to it by the people, at the time it was compelled to resume the exercise of its rights," sends a deputation to the National Assembly to insist that "the new department be converted, pure and simple, into a tax-commissioners' office."-- Mortimer-Ternaux, III.25.Speech of Robespierre in the name of the commune: "After the people have saved the country, after decreeing a National Convention to replace you, what remains for you to do but to gratify their wishes ?...

The people, forced to see to its own salvation, has provided for this through its delegates...

It is essential that those chosen by itself for its magistrates should enjoy the plenary powers befitting the sovereign."] [Footnote 3124: Official reports of the commune, Aug.
10 .-- Mortimer-Ternaux, III.155.Letter of the Minister Servan, Aug.
30.-Ibid., 149 .-- Ibid., 148.

The commission on supplies having been broken up by the commune, Roland, the Minister of the Interior, begs the Assembly to act promptly, for "he will no longer be responsible for the supplies of Paris."] [Footnote 3125: Official reports of the commune, Aug.21.A resolution requiring that, on trials for lese-nation, those who appear for the defendants should be provided with a certificate of their integrity, issued by their assembled section, and that the interviews between them and the accused be public .-- Ibid., Aug.17, a resolution to suspend the execution of the two assassins of mayor Simonneau, condemned to death by the tribunal of Seine-et-Oise.] [Footnote 3126: Mortimer-Ternaux, III.11.Decree of Aug.11.] [Footnote 3127: Prudhomme, "Revolutions de Paris" (number for Sep.