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manded and collected of the offending person in the city of 
Nuremberg by the members of the body established by the Conn- 
cil and known as the “Five,” and in the county by the adminis¬ 
trators and magistrates. And such fines shall be put into a 
common box, which has been provided for in the city of Nur¬ 
emberg, and which in the country has been placed in the 
churches of all the hamlets under the jurisdiction of the coun¬ 
cil, and the poor and needy shall be given from it. 
And since by night and day, in the streets and elsewhere, dis¬ 
graceful and scandalous songs are sung by old and young, and 
no doubt by dissolute persons, the Honorable Council warns 
every one of its citizens and clients to prevent such misdemean¬ 
ors on the part of their children and servants, since it (the 
Council) will by day and night have a care on this account, and 
whoever is guilty of scandalous and disgraceful songs or speech, 
and is discovered in the act or convicted on reliable testimony, 
shall be punished in accordance with his age and the deed. 
Where such things are committed by young boys and girls, 
they shall be put in prison for half a day and be handed over 
to their parents to be chastized with rods, or they shall be chas¬ 
tized in the prison. But if they be older persons and past the 
years of childhood, they shall be put into prison and punished 
in proportion to the extent of their misdemeanor. In the same 
manner shall all administrators and magistrates of the Council 
administer punishment in the country. 
Furthermore, as many vices grow and develop out of the dis¬ 
graceful abuse of inducing people to drink by treating, and it is 
moreover displeasing to God Almighty who will inflict certainly 
his terrible punishment still more severely, if it does not cease 
that his earthly gifts, which should be used thankfully for the 
benefit of mankind, are thus wasted and abused in a manner 
more than beastly, therefore, the Honorable Council is deter¬ 
mined, as said above, for the Glory of God, and as a duty to its 
position as sovereign, to ward off such abuse in its city and ter¬ 
ritories. 
Hence whatever citizen, inhabitant, guest, subject or client 
under the jurisdiction of the Council shall drink for the sake of 
