20. The superintendent or guild patron is obligated to present this decision without delay to the magistrate for permission.
21. This permission must be denied if the guild cannot simultaneously furnish adequate proof of how its debts are to be paid.
22. Other than that, the magistrate may not generally refuse permission.
23. However, should he have concerns about it, he must, in conjunction with the local police authorities, report immediately to the provincial government and ask for its decision.
24. If the dissolution is approved, first and foremost all guild debts must be paid off from its joint assets.
25. If anything is left over thereafter, it becomes the free property of the members, provided the guild has no bank liabilities, toward whose repayment this surplus must be used in accordance with § 39 of this decree.
26. The guild can designate this surplus for charitable purposes through a majority vote and with approval from the magistrate.
27. If no such agreement can be arrived at, it will be distributed in equal parts among all existing masters and master widows who have carried on the trade. [ . . . ]
29. The office of the territorial police is authorized to declare a guild as dissolved at any time. [ . . . ]
31. If, in special cases, the territorial police deem it necessary for the good of the general welfare to group those practicing a certain trade into a corporation, then everyone is obligated to join that corporation as long as he is engaged in that trade.
32. Exclusive, hereditary, and sellable trade licenses in cities that are registered as such in the mortgage books, shall, with reference to § 17 of the Edict of November 2 of last year, be redeemed, and until this can be done, they shall have interest paid on them.
33. Even trade authorizations that were formerly linked inseparably to city properties are not exempt from this, because this inseparability was already abolished by § 4 of the Edict of November 9, 1807. [ . . . ]
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