19. If members can deal with the business in an hour, they are free to disperse, but if they cannot finish in the morning, they must continue to sit without a break until 6 P.M. or until they have finished all the business. We therefore instruct Our Head Marshal and Real Privy Minister of State von Printz that if the Directory remains in session till after 2 P.M. he is to have a midday meal of four good courses, with wine and beer, brought up from Our kitchen. Half the heads and members of Departments are to eat while the other half work, and afterward those who worked while the others ate shall eat in their turn, and the others work, that Our service may be carried on efficiently, diligently, and truly.
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Art. IV.
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2. The Directory must watch with all diligence that the regiments of Our army always receive their pay punctually and in full, and that there are never any arrears.
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Art. VII. On maintaining the welfare of the unfree population.
1. Everyone knows how important it is to every Power that the condition of its unfree population should be satisfactory and what dangerous consequences can ensue when the unfree population is exhausted by a bad economic system and excessive burdens, and is reduced to a state in which its members are unable to fulfill their ordinary obligations toward their master at all, or at any rate, not completely. The Directory is therefore to devote its attention, with great diligence and application, to maintaining the welfare of all Our unfree populations, so that they be always maintained in a flourishing and prosperous state, and that neither the war tax nor the landlords’ dues, etc., be fixed at an unsupportable level.
2. The Directory must not confine itself to keeping the towns in a flourishing condition but must also pay special attention to the conditions of the peasants, the villagers, and the rural districts.
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