Title V.
Of Receipts and Expenses.
68. The tax of one-twentieth on the expenses of studies, imposed upon the pupils of colleges and schools, is abolished from the date of the publication of the present decree.
69. Excepting always: 1. The charges for terms, examinations, and degrees, applied to the benefit of the faculties; 2. The subscriptions paid by the pupils of the royal and local colleges for the advantage of those establishments; 3. The annual contributions of the heads of seminaries and boarding-schools, for the use of the Universities.
70. The townships will continue to supply the funds for scholars on the foundation, and the sums they have hitherto contributed under the title of help to their colleges: with this object, the total of these sums, as also of the burses, will be included in their respective budgets with the fixed expenses; and no deviation whatever from this will take place, unless previously submitted to our Royal Council of Instruction.
71. The townships will also continue to supply and keep in repair the buildings requisite for the Universities, the faculties, and colleges.
72. The councils of the Universities will settle the budgets for the colleges and faculties.
73. The faculties and royal colleges, of which the receipts exceed the expenses, will apply the surplus to the treasury of the University.
74. The councils of the universities will receive the annual contributions of the heads of seminaries and boarding schools.
75. They will manage the property belonging to the University of France situated in the district of each provincial university, and will collect the revenue.