Useless Mouths., August 24, 1870.

Useless Mouths.

governor of paris—general order.

The governor of Paris, in consideration of the law of August 9, 1849, on the state of siege; in consideration of the decree of the 7th instant, by which Paris was declared in a state of siege; in consideration of the seventy-fifth article of the decree of the 24th December, 1811, relating to the organization and service of the local staff, which decrees: That in every place, in a state of siege, if the minister or the general of the army gives the orders, or if the troops of the enemy approach within three days’ march of the place, the governor or commanding officer is forthwith, and without awaiting the state of siege, invested with the necessary authority—

First. To cause the useless mouths, the strangers, and the persons designated by the civil or military police, to leave. In consideration of the law of the 9th July, 1852, relating to the removal from the department of the Seine of persons who have undergone judicial punishment, vagrants, beggars, and others addicted to practices dangerous to person and to property—

Resolved, That, 1st. Every individual without means of subsistence, whose presence at Paris would constitute a danger to both the public order and the security of person and property, or who would give himself to actions of such a nature as to weaken or to trammel the measures for defense and for general security, is expelled from the capital. 2d. The infraction of the orders of expulsion shall be accused before the military tribunals.