1. From this moment until that in which the enemy shall have been
driven from the soil of the Republic, all Frenchmen are in permanent
requisition for the service of the armies. The young men shall go to battle;
the married men shall forge arms and transport provisions; the women shall make
tents and clothing and shall serve in the hospitals; the children shall turn
old linen into lint; the aged shall betake themselves to the public places in
order to arouse the courage of the warriors and preach the hatred of kings and
the unity of the Republic.
2. The national buildings shall be converted into barracks, the public
places into workshops for arms, the soil of the cellars shall be washed in
order to extract there from the saltpeter.
3.
The arms of the regulation caliber shall be reserved exclusively for those who
shall march against the enemy; the service of the interior shall be performed
with hunting pieces and side arms.
4. The saddle horses are put into requisition to complete the cavalry
corps the draft horses, other than those employed in agriculture, shall convey
the artillery and the provisions.
5. The Committee of Public Safety is charged to take all necessary
measures to set up without delay an extraordinary manufacture of arms of every
sort which corresponds with the ardor and energy of the French people. It is,
accordingly, authorized to form all the establishments, factories, workshops,
and mills which shall be deemed necessary for the carrying on of these works,
as well as to put in requisition, within the entire extent of the Republic, the
artists and workingmen who can contribute to their success.
6.
The representatives of the people sent out for the execution of the present law
shall have the same authority in their respective districts, acting in concert
with the Committee of Public Safety; they are invested with the unlimited
powers assigned to the representatives of the people to the armies.
7. Nobody can get himself replaced in the service for which he shall
have been requisitioned. The public functionaries shall remain at their posts.