It proclaimed a perpetual public peace, provided that those who broke it should be outlawed, and placed the duty of executing the ban upon all territories within ninety miles of the offender.

It also passed a bill for taxation, called the "common penny," which combined features of a poll tax, an {76} income tax and a property tax.

The difficulty of collecting it was great; Maximilian himself as a territorial prince tried to evade it instead of setting his subjects the good example of paying it.

He probably derived no more than the trifling sum of 50,000-100,000 gulden from it annually.

The Diet also revived the Supreme Court and gave it a permanent home at Frankfort-on-the-Main.