« The more prohibitions there are, the poorer the people will be. »
Lao-Tzu
Statutes & Proclamations
Arranged Everyday Life
in Decrees · Edicts · Circulars
from 5 Centuries
- Public Notice regarding the prohibition of trade from and to the Netherlands
- Public Notice regarding the Special Tariff of Dutch products (1791)
- Only light penalties for fish thieves in 1797 :
Publicandum (by the Royal Electoral Marchian War and Domain Chamber)
On behalf of punishing the fish and especially carp thefts from the carp ponds (1797) - Publication by the Bremen and Verden Governmental Commission in regard of the legitimization and visitation of all and any ships passing the sovereign Elbe customs place upstream (July 5, 1814)
- Hamburg’s Shipping & Trade during the American War of Independence :
Regulation, in regard of Hamburg’s Trade and Shipping, during the War (September 18, 1778) - Regulation On The Commissioned Wasser=Schout’s In Hamburg Office and Execution (August 31, 1691)
- The people’s regime in the revolution’s hunting law :
Rondonneau, L(ouis). (ed.). Code de la Chasse et de la Pêche - Seizures & Legal Procedures, Of
- Resolution + Publication by the Royal Holstein=Lauenburg Supreme Court at Glückstadt in the matter of privateers and their prizes in the harbors and navigable waters of the duchies (May 17, 1823)
- For the encouragement of the industrious & proficient
“the legal fixing of daily pay … is completely released by this”
Shipwrights, Newly Revised Order of the (April 3, 1788)
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