6. Toll on One's Own Products. It is entirely mad that the peasant or the manual laborer should pay a toll on what he grows or makes so that he can sell it in another area and bring money into this territory. With the new arrangement in France one pays tolls only for luxury goods which come from outside the territory, or for goods which are being transported through the territory. The tolls are moderate and they will become even more moderate, and they can be paid once and for all at the border. And with the new arrangement in France there is also no more road-tax, excise tax, or consumption tax or the kind of peripheral taxes which were invented by the unchristian enemies of the people.

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7. The Jew Toll. As if the Israelites were not people just as much as others, but rather an item of commerce. With the new arrangement in France they can pass back and forth as freely as the Christians.

8. Military Service. Everyone must serve a certain number of years as a soldier, or in the event that he is incapable by nature, then pay for a dispensation. During his time of service he cannot support his old father or his indigent mother, and he must spend his time miserably in the garrison. Oh, that is also entirely different in France since the new arrangement. Every citizen is armed, but only to maintain the peace and order in his village or his city as the national guard with other citizens. He who cannot perform his service, sends his son or brother or a neighbor. This service is only 12 or 24 hours once per month. No one is forced to go to war, but rather only those who volunteer are taken as soldiers, and then they serve to defend the Fatherland: not for the self-interest of an emperor; not for the vanity, authoritarianism, or vengeance of an elector; not for the pride of a prince or count; and not to parade for a magistrate.

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9. Feudal Tithe has been entirely abolished by the new arrangement in France, for the benefit of the peasant. Voluntary tithes, from which pious institutions of many kinds are maintained, also are to be abolished once the new arrangement in France is fully implemented. However, it cannot be done at once, because otherwise some pious institutions would go under. There are all sorts of means and ways, meanwhile, to relieve and reimburse the peasant until every tithe has been abolished, and meanwhile communities will indemnify the previous recipients of the tithe or the tithe lords, so that the tithe can stop right away. They will be fully supported thereby by the high officials of the republic in Mainz, Worms, Speyer, and other areas.