Fourth Section.Laws concerning the realms of censorship and printing.
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Censorship N. I.
His Majesty has deemed it worthy of His most exalted attention and service to
introduce an amendment to the way in which the censorship of books has been carried out
so far, in order to make the latter easier and more straightforward in future. With this
intention, His Majesty has arranged that henceforth there shall be only one Central
Commission for Book Censorship covering all the Austrian hereditary lands, which is to
be based in Vienna and whose resolutions are to serve forthwith as a uniform guiding-
principle, both in Vienna and in the hereditary provinces, with regard to which books
are permitted and which are forbidden. On the other hand, the separate censorship
commissions which were previously in place in the various territories are to be dissolved:
just a book revision board will be maintained in each territory, and responsibility for
the measures to be taken in the provinces in matters of book censorship will henceforth
be transferred and entrusted to each such territorial authority.