(Ed.Laff.

I.pp.
315-445).] [Footnote 4112: Two kinds of police must be distinguished one from the other.

The first is general and belongs to the State: its business is to repress and prevent, outside and inside, all aggression against private and public property.

The second is municipal, and belongs to the local society: its business is to see to the proper use of the public roads, and other matters, which, like water, air, and light, are enjoyed in common; it undertakes, also, to forestall the risks and dangers of imprudence, negligence, and filth, which any aggregation of men never fails to engender.

The provinces of these two police forces join and penetrate each other at many points; hence, each of the two is the auxiliary, and, if need be, the substitute of the other.] [Footnote 4113: Rocquain, "l'Etat de la France au 18 Brumaire," passim.] [Footnote 4114: Raynouard, "Histoire du droit municipal,"II., 356, and Dareste, "Histoire de l'administration en France," I., 209, 222.
(Creation of the posts of municipal mayor and assessors by the king, in 1692, for a money consideration.) "These offices were obtained by individuals, along with hereditary title, now attached to communities, that is to say, bought in by these," which put in their possession the right of election .-- The king frequently took back these offices which he had sold, and sold them over again.