Seven articles concerning the rights of the people of the Pays de Gex
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MS 32 (B), ‘Gex’
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Seven articles concerning the rights of the people of the Pays de Gex
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Par le compte qui nous a été rendu de la situation ou se trouve actuellement notre Pais de Gex nous avons reconnu que L’etablissement des droits qui ont Lieu dans les Provinces sujettes aux droits de nos cinq grosses fermes devenoit de jour en jour plus onereux aux habitant dud Pais ence qu’ils setrouvoient parlà privés des avantages que devoit naturellement leur procurer la proximité ou ils sont de la Suisse, de Genêve et de la Savoie.
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A shorter, presentation copy of Voltaire Foundation, MS 32A, comprising of seven articles concerning the rights of the people of the Pays de Gex.
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A similar but shorter version of the report in Voltaire Foundation MS 32 A, consisting of seven articles concerning the rights of the people of the Pays de Gex. Articles 8 and 9 are missing from this copy. The hand, whilst the same as MS 32 (B) is much more elaborate in this copy and almost all of the marginal notes have been removed. The articles are as follows: 1. The Pays de Gex has been disunited from the five large farms 2. Inhabitants of the Pays de Gex are allowed to trade with foreigners as they see fit 3. They wish that the salt tax be imposed every year in each of the communes 4. The nobility, clergy, and other privileged individuals wish to be subject to the taxation of salt ordered by the preceding article 5. The price of each minot of salt shall be fixed at the sum of 23 livres in accordance with the decree of the Council of 26 August 1738 6. If the Pays cannot provide the amount of salt specified, their families and Bertiaux should be allowed to provide the additional salt as they see fit 7. The findings of the three orders of the Pays de Gex will be carried out in the presence of the general tenderer of the farms or his clerk
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3 ff.
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315 x 203 mm
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2
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Each sheet of paper is watermarked with a crown and text reading: ‘FIN DE. I. IOMANNOD FIN V. UARETS 1742’.
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There is a small flap at the back of the manuscript, similar to those of Voltaire Foundation, MS 29 and MS 31. There is also a small ink splatter on f.1r. There is a faint vertical fold line used to divide the pages in two (draft format), and an additional horizontal fold line.
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