Volume 4 (of 6) 71/88 "There shall be established in each district town a Committee of Philanthropy, authorized to levy on the rich a tax proportionate to the number of the indigent."] [Footnote 2172: Decree of April 2-5, 1793. "There shall be organized in each large commune a guard of citizens selected from the least fortunate. These citizens shall be armed and paid at the expense of the Republic."] [Footnote 2173: Moniteur, XX., 449. (Report of Barere, Floreal 22, year II.)] [Footnote 2174: Ibid., XIX., 689. |