The things we do!

- They are in
possession of four milliards of ecclesiastical property, real and
personal, and soon there will be two and a half milliards of
property belonging to the emigrants, which must be sequestered,
valued, managed, inventoried, divided, sold, and the proceeds
received. They have seven or eight thousand monks and thirty
thousand nuns to displace, install, sanction, and provide for. They
have forty-six thousand ecclesiastics, bishops, canons, cur?s, and
vicars, to dispossess, replace, often by force, and later on to
expel, intern, imprison, and support. They are obliged to discuss,
trace out, teach and make public new territorial boundaries, those
of the commune, of the district and of the department. They have to
convoke, lodge, and protect the numerous primary and secondary
Assemblies, to supervise their operations, which sometimes last for
weeks. They must install those elected by them, justices of the
peace, officers of the National Guard, judges, public prosecutors,
cur?s, bishops, district and departmental administrators.


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