shall present to it the state of the judgments rendered; opposite eachshall be an abridged statement of the action, and the text of the lawon which the decision shall have been made. Art. 23. A National High Court, formed of members of the Tribunal of Cassation, and of the grand juries, shall have jurisdiction of the misdemeanors of ministers, and principal agents of the executivepower, and crimes which attack the general safety of the State, incases where the Legislative Body shall have passed a decree of indictment. The High Court shall assemble on the proclamation of the Legislative Body, and at a distance of at least thirty miles from the placewhere the legislature has its seat. Art. 24. The writ of execution of the courts shall be expressed asfollows:"N (the name of the King), by the grace of God and by constitutional law of the State, King of the French, to all these presents shallcome, greeting. The Tribunal of * * * has rendered the followingjudgment:"(Here shall be a copy of the judgment, in which the name of thejudges shall appear. )" We decree and order all sheriffs, upon this requisition, to placethe said judgment in execution; to our commissioners at the tribunalsto keep it in force, and to all commanders and officers of the public forcesto lend assistance when they shall legally be required to do so. Inwitness whereof the present judgment has been signed by the presidentand the clerk of the tribunal. "Art. 25. The functions of the commissioners of the King at thetribunals shall be to require the observance of the law in the pendingcases, and to cause the final judgments to be executed. They shall not be public accusers, but they shall be heard upon allaccusations, and shall require the observance of forms in the preparation for the hearing of a cause, and, before judgment, in the applicationof the law. Art. 26. The commissioners of the King at the tribunals shall inform the foreman of the jury, either as a duty, or in accordance withorders which shall have been given to them by the King:All attempts against the individual liberty of citizens, against thefree circulation of subsistence and other objects of commerce, andagainst the collection of taxes; crimes by which the execution of theorders given by the King, in the exercise of the functions which are
