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Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785)

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Austrian Statutes on Censorship and Printing, Vienna (1785), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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            2. If a private person orders books from abroad, or arranges for carters to
bring these [into the hereditary lands] in cases or packages, they are to be subjected
to revision just like the merchandise of booksellers. Therefore, after payment of the
import tariff at the border, the custom-house is obliged to send such books in a sealed
package to the district authority responsible for the district or city quarter in which
the owner of the books is resident.

            3. When the district authority receives such a case or package of books, it
is to arrange for a competent official in its service to separate those books which
have already been approved from the forbidden ones, as well as any new books and those
that appear questionable to the Imperial and Royal district authority. The approved
books are to be handed over immediately to their owner. Those that are forbidden, new,
and questionable are to be entered into a special list by the official concerned, who
is to sign his name, and this list is to be sent to the territorial authority. These
books are to be held in safekeeping until a decision has arrived from the latter.

            4. If private persons or booksellers submit provisional lists of the books
they are expecting from abroad, the district authority is to forward these lists to
the territorial administration so that


    

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