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[39] Archives Nationales, AF., II., 49. (Documents on the levy of
revolutionary taxes, Belfort, Brumaire 30, year II.) " Verneur, sr.,
taxed at ten thousand livres, for having withheld goods deposited with
him by his sister, in order to save them from the coming taxation."
Campardon I., 292. (Judgments of the revolutionary commission at
Strasbourg.) - "The head-clerk in Hecht's apothecary shop is accused
of selling two ounces of rhubarb and manna at fifty-four sous; Hecht,
the proprietor, is condemned to a fine of fifteen thousand livres.
Madeleine Meyer, at Rosheim, a retailer, is accused of selling a
candle for ten sous and is condemned to a fine of one thousand livres,
payable in three days. Braun, butcher and bar-keeper, accused of
having sold a glass of wine for twenty sous, is condemned to a fine of
forty thousand francs, to be imprisoned until this is paid, and to
exposure in the pillory before his own house for four hours, with this
inscription: debaser of the national currency." - " Recueil de Pieces,
etc., at Strasbourg," (supplement, pp. 21, 30, 64). "Marie Ursule
Schnellen and Marie Schultzmann, servant, accused of monopolising
milk.
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