population, and children must be reckoned as consumers from the day of their birth. The revision of the issue of currency is an essential problem for the whole world.
You know that gold currency was detrimental to the governments that accepted it, for it could not satisfy the requirements for money, since we took as much gold as possible out of circulation.
We must issue a currency based on the value of the working power, whether it be of paper or wood. We will issue money in proportion to the normal demands of every subject, adding a certain amount at every birth and decreasing it with every death.
Every department (the French administrative divisions),6 every district, will be in charge of its own accounts.
To avoid any delay in paying government expenses, the terms of such payments will be decreed by order of the sovereign; this will eliminate any favoritism of the ministry (of finance)7 over any other department to the detriment of the