book j n a n t a x e s § u p o n p r o v i f io n s a n d m e r c h a n d i z e o n l y i n ;
, the place of the king’s refidence, excepting, corn,, and the,
productions belonging to the nobility..
In all cafes of debt or borrowings, only ex viin jeripti
fori, when one of the parties appeals from the firft Affiance,
andthefum exceeds 500 florins = ¿ 1 3 . 9 ^
All appeals from, the firft inftance, relative to the nonpayment
of taxes, ihall be brought before the tribunal;
of the marihal with his afleflors, in the.prefence of. the judge:
or the notary, neither of whom ihall have a vote. In this-
and fimilar cafes of appeal,.the opinion ihall be given openly,,
and then finally decided by ballot..
2. The committee of the marfhals ihall be compofed of the.
great and little marihals (or o f their colleagues the marihals
of the crown), of two fenators,. and four perfons of the
equeftrian order. Thefe fix afleffors ihall. be chofen at the
ordinary diet, according to the form above prefcribed for,
the election of the members of the permanent council,
3. The marihals ihall be bound to fix months refidence
near his majefty, and each of the afleflors to four months, to
the end that there may always be the complete number of five
perfons, including the marihals, requiiite to form a fitting,
4. No member of this committee can be eleCted a nuntio >
for the next diet; but the nuntios may be appointed members
of this committee by ballot, and half of the antient af-
fefiors, both fenators and nobles of the equeftrian order;, may
be continued in their office for the two following years.
5. Solely in the cafes of denegati judicii et corruptionis ju -
diciSyperjurii et opprejjionis civis liberi, complaints againft the
* T h e great marihal ufed before, o f his prefents and-bribes to. augment their proown,
authority, to impofe prices on mer- fit. Connor’s Hift. o f Pol. v. II. p. 69.
chants wares, who generally rnade him great
2 decifions
■decifions of this committee can be brought before the per- chav.
.manent council; and caufes of this nature ihall be tried b y .— >
the permanent council, in the manner prefcribed by the law
concerning the denegatum judicium, et corruptionem judicis
‘et perjurium.
6. Each month the great marihal ihall lay, before the permanent
council, the report of his decifions, made in conjunction
with the afleflors.
7. In cafe the marihal ihould difobey the laws in any of
thefe articles, the permanent council may remonftrate ; and
'if he perfifts in infringing them, he ihall be liable to be cited
before the diet as guilty of high treafon.
8. In all other points, not contrary to thefe articles, the
'antient prerogatives of the marihals ihall continue in force.
Department of the Police in the Permanent Council.
1. When the great marihal ihall be a member of the permanent
council, he ihall ptefide in the department of the
police;; and in his abfence the firft fenior in rank, who is
member of the faid department.
a. I f any complaints ihall be urged againft the great or
•little marihals, for non-performance of the duties fpecified
>in the articles of the “ committee of marihals and their de-
pendence on the permanent council,” the plaintiffs, i f
members of the council, ihall not be preient at the refolutions
palled under fuch oircumftances.
3. If this department ihall have occafion for the regiftef
x>f the committee of marfhals, it ihall be communicated.
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