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mcnt. When one of those itinerant journeymen-trades- 

 men comes into a town and cannot find employment 

 in it, he is considered as having a right to beg the as- 

 sistance of the inhabitants, and particularly of those of 

 the trade he professes, to enable him to go to the next 

 town ; and this assistance it was not thought just to 

 refuse. This custom was not only very troublesome 

 to the inhabitants, but gave rise to innumerable abuses. 

 Great numbers of idle vagabonds were continually 

 strolling about the country under the name of travel- 

 ling journeymen-tradesmen ; and though any person 

 who presented himself as such in any strange place was 

 obliged to produce (for his legitimation) a certificate 

 from his last master in whose service he had been em- 

 ployed, yet such certificates were so easily counterfeited, 

 or obtained by fraud, that little reliance could be placed 

 in them. 



To remedy all these evils, the following arrangement 

 was made : those travelling journeymen-tradesmen who 

 arrive at Munich, and do not find employment, are 

 obliged to quit the town immediately, or to repair to the 

 Military Workhouse, where they are either furnished 

 with work or a small sum is given them to enable them 

 to pursue their journey farther. 



Another arrangement by which the inhabitants have 

 been relieved from much importunity, and by which a 

 stop has been put to many abuses, is the new regulation 

 respecting those who suffer by fire. Such sufferers com- 

 monly obtain from government special permission to 

 make collections of charitable donations among the in- 

 habitants in certain districts, during a limited time. 

 Instead of the permission to make collections in the 

 city of Munich, the sufferers now receive certain sums 



