Sot APE ROA PBR &, 
héreafter mentioned, and in defal- 
cation of the taxes, namely, a quin- 
tal of wheat, nine livres; a quintal 
of rye, barley, or fpelt, fix livres; 
a fack of oats, of fix Parifian buthels, 
fix livres; a quintal of hay, two 
livres five fous; a quintal of ftraw, 
one livre; a pound of meat, four fous 
fix deniers. 
VIII. The members of the ma- 
gifterial corporations, and the bai- 
liffs, who, for any caufe whatever, 
may have transferred their refidence 
to, or preférved the fame on the ~ 
right bank of the Rhine, are au- 
thorifed and invited to refume their 
charges. In cafe of the demife of 
any member of the chambers, tri- 
bunals, or bailiwicks, the interme- 
diate commiffion is authorifed to 
appoint to the vacant places, per- 
fons recommended as proper ob- 
jects by the magiftrates, who are to 
- be immediately, reinftalled. 
Thefe prefents, corroborated with 
the feal of command, and delivered 
to the deputies of the Pruffian pro- 
vinces, have been refolved at Co- 
logne, the 22d Ventofe, 5th year of 
the Republic (March 12, 1797.) 
The General commanding in 
chief the army of the Sam- 
bre and Meufe, charged by . 
the Executive Direftory with. 
the general adminfftration of 
the conquered countries. 
(Signed) Lazarus Hocue. 
Promulgated at Wefel, 
March 18, 1797. 
Edidt publifhed at Berlin. 
Frederic William, by the Grace of God, 
King of Pruffia, Se. Se. 
HAVING underftood that the 
Aulic Council of Vienna have 
adopted, without ever confulting 
' us, different meafures, on the re- 
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queft of one party, and wholly to 
the advantage of the complainants, 
by which they have atiacked us 
and our rights, ‘and diffuaded our 
Subjects from performing thofe ob- 
ligations which they have contra¢t- 
ed on oath with us, and have even 
formally fummoned thofe of the 
Equeftrian Order not to regard us 
as their Sovereign, —the meafures 
which they have adopted, by print- 
ing and circulating them, to miflead 
our fubjeéts, are, 
Ift.. A mandate of the Auli¢ 
Council, dated March 17th, 1797, 
on the fubjeét of the claims of the. 
fovereignty of Brandenbourg againft 
the bifhopric of Etchftadt. 2d. A 
conclufum of the -Aulic Council, of 
the 23d March, concerning the pre- 
tenfions of the fovereignty of Bran- 
denbourg againft the Equeftrian 
Order in Franconia. 3d. Idem, of 
the 8th of April, and againft the 
imperial town of, Welfleinbourg. 
4th. Idem, March 5th, &c. againft 
the Eleétor of Cologne, as Grand 
Mafter of the Teutonic Order. 
sth. Idem, May 9th, &c. againft the. 
imperial town of Nuremberg. 
Confidering what the laws of the. 
empire prefcribe, we can by no 
means regard, nor will regard, thefe 
meafures as legally valid and obli- 
gatory, but, on the contrary, we 
mutt confider them as real encroach- 
ments on our rights of fovereignty, 
and peculiarly prejudicial: we, in 
confequence, therefore, folemnly 
and ferioufly, by the prefent pa- 
tent, advife and forewarn all thofe 
of the Equeftrian Order who have 
hitherto belonged to the canton 
of the Equeftrian Order of the em- 
pire, as alfo all other perfons whofe 
fovereigns belong to the Equeftrian 
Order, or are neighbouring princes, 
not to fwerve in the leaft degree » 
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