Bavaria. - Mandate, Maximilian III Joseph. In order to control marriages in Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate, the official marriage license is made subject to a heavy fee of one guilder. The reason given in the mandate is clear: there was little inclination to allow "completely impecunious people" to marry in order to prevent "the number of poor people from increasing even more through marriage". Munich, Dec. 27, 1775.
Further proclamation on the same sheet: levying a fee for publicly organized games for the benefit of a Fundo Pauperum: "Abolition of begging and dissolute health as well as for the employment of the poor." Munich, Dec. 27, 1775 - Two decrees on an undivided sheet.
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