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CHAPTER II. 



Various Preparations made for putting an End to 

 Mendicity in Bavaria. Cantonment of the Cav- 

 alry in the Country Towns and Villages. For- 

 mation of the Committee placed at the Head of the 

 Institution for the Poor at Munich. The Funds 

 of that Institution. 



AS soon as it was determined to undertake this 

 great and difficult work, and the plan of opera- 

 tions was finally settled, various preparations were made 

 for its execution. 



The first preliminary step taken was to canton four 

 regiments of cavalry in Bavaria and the adjoining prov- 

 inces, in such a manner that not only every consider- 

 able town was furnished with a detachment, but most 

 of the large villages were occupied ; and, in every part 

 of the country, small parties of threes, fours, and fives, 

 were so stationed, at the distance of one, two, and 

 three leagues from each other, that they could easily 

 perform their daily patrols from one station to another 

 in the course of the day, without ever being obliged to 

 stop at a peasant's house or even at an inn, or ever to 

 demand forage for their horses, or victuals for them- 

 selves, or lodgings, from any person whatever. This 

 arrangement of quarters prevented all disputes between 

 the military and the people of the country. The head- 

 quarters of each regiment, where the commanding 

 officer of the regiment resided, was established in a 

 central situation with respect to the extent of country 

 occupied by the regiment. Each squadron had its com- 



