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to the hatting trade. It is a decree of the Court of France for the re- 

 duction in price of beaver hats, in which prayer is made ' ' that the ap- 

 plicant (I^iberti) may be permitted to give information of the treaties 

 and conventions secretly acquired by monopoly between the master 

 hatters who work in beaver, and Mathier d'Ustrelo, a foreigner ; the 

 said d'Ustrelo not to sell beaver skins, except to them, and in re- 

 ciprocation they have promised the said d'Ustrelo, not to buy beaver 

 skins except from him. And to give information likewise of frauds 



ST. CLEMENT, 

 PATROX SAINT OP THE HATTERS. 



