CAHIER de GERVILLE (Bon Claude) Bayeux 1751 - 1796 - Ministe - Lot 234

CAHIER de GERVILLE (Bon Claude) Bayeux 1751 - 1796 - Minister of the Interior from November 29, 1791 to March 24, 1792 - Letter A.S. "B. C. CAHIER" Procureur de la Commune de PARIS (En-tête, vignette du blason de PARIS) - to M. RAFFY, his colleague - Paris, September 15, 1791 - Observations on the Inspectors of the PORTS in PARIS, and the well-founded difficulties they experience relative to the exercise of their functions on the Ports. "I have just received your two letters of today, one concerning melons and the other concerning oysters. For several days I have been working on ways to establish 1) surveillance of the title of gold and silver materials 2) surveillance of edible medicines and beverages 3) surveillance of weights and measures... all your inspectors, the former Commissioners... in the ports or elsewhere, have no authority to exercise any functions whatsoever in the ports or elsewhere...". - 2 pages in-4°