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6, 1800.] [Footnote 31122: Decisions of February 23, 1801, and June 26, 1801. (We find, through subsequent decisions, that these recoveries were frequently effected.)] [Footnote 31123: Law of Frimaire 7, year V (imposing one decime per franc above the cost of a ticket in every theatre for the benefit of the poor not in the asylums) .-- Also the decree of Dec.
9, 1809 .-- Decisions of Vendemiaire 27, year VII, and the restoration of the Paris octroi, "considering that the distress of the civil asylums and the interruption of succor at domiciles admit of no further delay."-- Also the law of Frimaire 19, year VIII, with the addition of 2 decimes per franc to the octroi duties, established for the support of the asylums of the commune of Paris .-- Paul Leroy-Beaulieu, "Traite de la science des finances," I., 685.
Many towns follow this example: "Two years had scarcely passed when there were 293 Octrois in France."] [Footnote 31124: Law of Messidor 25, year V .-- Alexis Chevalier, ibid., p.185.
(Decisions of Thermidor 20, year XI, and Germinal 4, year XIII.)--Law of Dec..
11, 1808 (article 1.)] [Footnote 31125: Albert Duruy, "l'Instruction publique et la Revolution," p.480 et seq.
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