(Orders of Representative Bassal, Besancon Frimaire 5.) "No citizen shall keep in his house more than four months' supplies....

Every citizen with more than this will deposit the surplus in the granary 'd'abondance' provided for the purpose...

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Immediately on receipt of the present order, the municipality will summon all citizens that can thresh and proceed immediately, without delay, to the threshing-ground, under penalty of being prosecuted as refractory to the law....

The revolutionary army is specially charged with the execution of the articles of this order, and the revolutionary tribunals, following this army with the enforcement of the penalties inflicted according to this order."-- Other documents show us that the revolutionary army, organized in the department of Doubs and in the five neighboring departments, comprises, in all, two thousand four hundred men.