27 September 1870
The disastrous situation in which the Country finds itself; the impotence of the official powers and the indifference of the privileged classes have put the French nation on the brink of the abyss.
If the People organised in a revolutionary manner do not make haste to act, their future is lost, the Revolution is lost, all is lost. Inspired by the immensity of the danger and considering that the desperate action of the People cannot be delayed for a single moment, the delegates of the federated Committees for the Salvation of France, assembled by the Central Committee, propose to immediately adopt the following resolutions:
Article 1. - The administrative and governmental machine of the State, having become powerless, is abolished.
The people of France regain full control of themselves.
Art. 2. - All criminal and civil courts are suspended and replaced by the people’s justice.
Art. 3. - The payment of taxes and mortgages is suspended. Taxation is replaced by contributions from the federated communes, levied on the wealthy classes, in proportion to the needs of France’s salvation.
Art. 4. - The State, having been overthrown, will no longer be able to intervene in the payment of private debts.
Art. 5. - All the existing municipal organisations are smashed and replaced in all the federated communes by Committees for the Salvation of France, which will exercise all powers under the direct control of the People.
Art. 6. - Each departmental capital committee will send two delegates to form the Revolutionary Convention for the Salvation of France.
Art. 7. - This Convention will immediately gather at the Town Hall of Lyon, as the second city of France and the most capable of energetically providing for the defence of the Country.
This Convention supported by the entire People will save France.
TO ARMS!!!
E.-B. SAIGNES, RIVIERE, DEVILLE, RAJON (of Tarare), François FAVRE, Louis PALIX, B. PLACET, BLANC (G.), Ch. BEAUVOIR, Albert RICHARD, J. BISCHOFF, DOUBLE, H. BOURRON, M. BAKOUNINE, PARRATON, A. GUILLERMET, COIGNET senor, P.-J. PULLIAT, LATOUR, GUILLO, SAVIGNY, J. GERMAIN, F. CHARVET, A. BASTELICA (of Marseille), DUPIN (of St.-Etienne), Narcisse BARRET.