ALSACE. SEIZURE OF POWDERS. PLACARD. Notice of François-Mari - Lot 100

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ALSACE. SEIZURE OF POWDERS. PLACARD. Notice of François-Mari - Lot 100
ALSACE. SEIZURE OF POWDERS. PLACARD. Notice of François-Marie GAYOT, King's Counselor, Provincial Commissioner of the wars, Ordonnateur and Subdelegate general of the Intendance of ALSACE. Done in STRASBOURG on July 4, 1750. We declared the 29 pounds of seized, acquired and confiscated gunpowder to the profit of the Adjudicator General of the Gunpowder and Saltpeter of France for the contravention committed by Nicolas HANTZER, boatman of COLMAR (which saw the barrel of gunpowder from Strasbourg to Colmar), condemned him to 300 pounds of fine with the costs... and that Guillaume SCHMITT, bourgeois merchant of STRASBOURG, will be held to carry it free... ". Royal Vignette. Cupboard (43 x 34) State B.
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