Communal Land Encouragement Decree.

Establishing acts:

Defining Communal Lands as lands that are not private, church or state owned land, but are worked by those who live on them.

Forms a Communal Land Cooperative Commission, lead by Paul Marie Saint-Estephe, along with dignified experts in agriculture and land management to design the starting Communal Land Cooperative charters, organize their formation and regulate them.

All local Communal land are to be converted into Communal Lands Cooperatives.

All those currently working on communal lands have shares divided amongst them equally, entitling them to that percentage of the product of the land.

Management regulations:

All Communal Land Cooperatives are ultimately governed by a vote of 50%+1 of all members with suffrage in the Communal Land Cooperatives by secret ballot, with all votes being equal.

Communal Land Cooperatives are otherwise permitted to create a charter to decide their own management structure, organizational pay structure and dividends schedule.

Financial regulations:

Dividends are paid out based on the percentage of the Communal Land Cooperative owned.

All Shareholders are permitted to exit the Communal Land Cooperative with the monetary equivalent to their shares, with the procedure otherwise determined by individual Communal Land Cooperative charter.

Expansion/Contraction Regulations:

Land values are determined by local Commissioners of the Republic in cooperation with Communal Land Cooperative Commission appraisers.

Existing estates that enter Communal Land Cooperatives will receive a share of the Communal Land Cooperative equivalent to the value their estate in proportion to the rest of the Commons Land Cooperative

Communal Land Cooperatives are permitted to purchase and sell rural land.

Communal Land Cooperatives are permitted to allow the incorporation of private estates on conditions set by the the Cooperative's management.

Communal Land Cooperatives are permitted to merge or split, contingent on a 50%+1 vote of all members in relevant parties.

Communal Land Cooperative Privileges:

Communal Land Cooperatives are permitted to contract out National/Departmental Workshop labour at a mutually agreed upon price.

All Communal Land Cooperatives and their members will be subject to the 1849 tax rates until otherwise voted on by a successor to the provisional government.

Rural land owned by the National Bank of France is to be sold to Communal Land Cooperatives as they can afford to purchase them.