The municipal officers, the report says further, are charged with the duty of drawing up the _rôles de capitation_ for all the inhabitants--a duty which they perform in a negligent and arbitrary manner; accordingly a vast number of complaints and memorials are sent in to the Intendant every year. It is much to be desired that henceforth the division should be made in the interest of each company or _communauté_ by its own members, according to stated and general rules; the municipal officers would have to make out only the _rôles de capitation_, for the burghers and others who belong to no corporation, such as some of the artisans and the servants of all privileged persons. The report of the Sub-delegate confirms what has already been said of the municipal officers--that the municipal offices had been redeemed by the town in 1735 for the sum of 170,000 livres. _Letter the Intendant to the Comptroller-General._--Supported by all these documents, the Intendant writes to the Minister: ‘It is important, for the sake of the inhabitants and of the public good, to reduce the corporation of the town, the members of which are too numerous and extremely burdensome to the public, on account of the privileges they enjoy.’ ‘I am struck,’ continues the Intendant, ‘with the enormous sums which have been paid at all periods for the redemption of the municipal offices at Angers. The amount of these sums, if employed on useful purposes, would have been profitable to the town, which, on the contrary, has gained nothing but an increased burden in the authority and privileges enjoyed by these officers.’ ‘The interior abuses of this administration deserve the whole attention of the council,’ says the Intendant further. ‘Independently of the _jetons_ and the wax-lights, which consume an annual sum of 2127 livres (the amount fixed for expenses of this kind by the normal budget, which from time to time was prescribed for the towns by the King), the public moneys are squandered and misapplied at the will of these officers to clandestine purposes, and the _procureur du Roi_, who has been in possession of his place for thirty or forty years, has made himself so completely master of the administration, with the secret springs of which he alone is acquainted, that the inhabitants have at all times found it impossible to obtain the smallest information as to the employment of the communal revenues.’ The result of all this is, that the Intendant requests the Minister to reduce the corporation of the town to a mayor appointed for four years, a _procureur du Roi_ appointed for eight, and a _greffier_ and _receveur_ appointed for life. Altogether the constitution which he proposes for this corporation is exactly the same as that which he elsewhere suggested for towns. In his opinion it would be desirable-- 1st. To maintain the General Assembly, but only as an electoral body for the election of municipal officers.