anclieu.) Letter of the bishop, Monseigneur Claude Simon,
to the Minister of Worship, April 18, 1809. "For seven years that I have
been bishop of Grenoble, I have ordained thus far only eight priests;
during this period I have lost at least one hundred and fifty. The
survivors threaten me with a more rapid gap; either they are infirm,
bent with the weight of years, or wearied or overworked. It is therefore
urgent that I be authorized to confer sacred orders on those who are old
enough and have the necessary instruction. Meanwhile, you are limited to
asking authorization for the first eight on the aforesaid list, of whom
the youngest is twenty-four.... I beg Your Excellency to present
the others on this list for the authorization of His Imperial
Majesty."--Ibid., October 6, 1811. "I have only one deacon and one
subdeacon, whilst I am losing three or four priests monthly."]

[Footnote 31119: Articles organiques, 68, 69. "The pensions enjoyed by
the cures by virtue of the laws of the constituent assembly shall be
deducted from their salary. The vicars and assistants shall be
taken from the pensioned ecclesiastics according to the laws of the
constituent assembly. The amount of these pensions and the product of
oblations shall constitute their salary."]

[Footnote 31120: Laws of Vendemiaire 16, year V, and Ventose 20, year
V..]

[Footnote 31121: Decree of Nov. 6, 1800.]

[Footnote 31122: Decisions of February 23, 1801, and June 26, 1801.
(We find, through subsequent decisions, that these recoveries were
frequently effected.)]

[Footnote 31123: Law of Frimaire 7, year V (imposing one decime per
franc above the cost of a ticket in every theatre for the benefit of the
poor not in the asylums).--Also the decree of Dec. 9, 1809.--Decisions
of Vendemiaire 27, year VII, and the restoration of the Paris octroi,
"considering that the distress of the civil asylums and the interruption
of succor at domiciles admit of no further delay."--Also the law of
Frimaire 19, year VIII, with the addition of 2 decimes per franc to the
octroi duties, established for the support of the asylums of the commune
of Paris.--Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, "Traite de la science des finances," I.,
685. Many towns follow this example: "Two years had scarcely passed when
there were 293 Octrois in France."]

[Footnote 31124: Law of Messidor 25, year V.--Alexis Chevalier, ibid.,
p. 185. (Decisions of Thermidor 20, year XI, and Germinal 4, year
XIII.)--Law of Dec.