The former is sentenced to the pillory for one day under a
placard, monopoliser of milk, and to hold in one hand the money and,
in the other, the milk-pot; the other, a servant with citizen Benner.
. . . he, the said Benner, is sentenced to a fine of three hundred
livres, payable in three days." - " Dorothy Franz, convicted of having
sold two heads of salad at twenty sous, and of thus having depreciated
the value of assignats, is sentenced to a fine of three thousand
livres, imprisonment for six weeks and exposure in the pillory for two
hours." - Ibid., I., 18. "A grocer, accused of having sold sugar-
candy at lower than the rate, although not comprised in the list, is
sentenced to one hundred thousand livres fine and imprisonment until
peace is declared." - Orders by Saint-Just and Lebas, Nivose 3, year
II. "The criminal court of the department of the Lower-Rhine is
ordered to destroy the house of any one convicted of having made sales
below the rates fixed by the maximum," consequently, the house of one
Schauer, a furrier, is torn down, Nivose 7.
[40] Archives des Affaires ?trang?res, vol. 322. (Letter by Haupt,
Belfort, Brumaire 3, year II.) "On my arrival here, I found the law of
the maximum promulgated and in operation.
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