The Council of Elders, by virtue of articles 102, 103, and 104 of the Constitution, decrees as follows:

         1. The Legislative Body shall be transferred to the Commune of Saint-Cloud; the two Councils shall hold their sessions there in the two wings of the palace.

         2. They shall assemble there tomorrow, 19 Brumaire, at noon. Any continuation of functions or deliberations elsewhere, or before said time, is forbidden.

         3. General Bonaparte is responsible for the execution of the present decree. He shall take all measures necessary for the security of the national representation.

         The general commanding the seventeenth military division, the guard of the Legislative Body, the resident National Guard, the troops of the line now in the Commune of Paris and the constitutional arrondissement and in the entire extent of the seventeenth division, shall be placed under his orders immediately, and are required to acknowledge him in such capacity. All citizens shall lend him aid on his first requisition.

         4. General Bonaparte shall be summoned into the midst of the Council, there to receive a copy of the present decree, and to take oath. He shall act in concert with the commissions of the inspectors of the two Councils.

         5. The present decree shall be transmitted immediately, by a messenger of State, to the Council of Five Hundred and the Executive Directory; it shall be printed, posted, promulgated, and dispatched to all communes of the Republic by special messengers.

         The Council of Elders decrees, moreover, the following address to the French people:

The Council of Elders to the French People

         Frenchmen, the Council of elders uses the right delegated to it by article 101 of the Constitution to change the location of the Legislative Body.
         It uses said right to curb the factions which intend to subjugate the national representation, and to give you internal peace.
         It uses said right to bring the external peace, which your long sacrifices and humanity beseech.
         Common safety and common prosperity, such is the purpose of this constitutional measure; it will be accomplished.
         And you, inhabitants of Paris, be calm; before long the presence of the Legislative Body will be restored to you.
         Frenchmen, the outcome of this day will soon prove whether the Legislative Body is worthy to provide for your welfare, or able to do so.
         Long live the people, by whom and in whom the Republic exists!
         The present address shall be printed, proclaimed, and posted, along with the decree of transfer of the location of the Legislative Body, as if constituting a part thereof.