Note 7 — Front matter (continued 3)
Reading edition
The 144 representatives of the Sections formed the General Council of the Commune; 48 of these formed the municipal body; and 16 of these were the actual Administrators, distributed among five departments, of 'subsistence,' 'police,' 'finance,' 'public establishments,' and 'public works.' See Mortimer-Ternaux's Histoire de la Terreur, vol. i. Appendix III, where the whole subject is thoroughly discussed.