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Dramatic Act (1780)

Source: Archives nationales, 01/844 (document conservé aux Archives nationales, Paris)

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Dramatic Act (1780), Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900), eds L. Bently & M. Kretschmer, www.copyrighthistory.org

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His Majesty authorizes the First Gentlemen of His Bedchamber to
appoint the members who will make up the Committee and to
replace them when they deem it to be appropriate, and even to
draw up such Regulations which they consider to be suitable and
to give their Decisions on any difficulties which might emerge
with regard to the said Regulations, or the present ruling, with
which Regulations and Decisions the Comédiens are obliged
to comply, on pain of [punishment for] disobedience. His Majesty
commands and orders the First Gentlemen of His Bedchamber,
the General Commissioner at the Bureau of the Maison du Roi
who is responsible for the Département des Menus, or his
representative, to ensure, each in his right, that the present
ruling is executed, His Majesty, furthermore, revoking and
declaring to be void the rulings of his Council of the seventeenth
of March and twelfth of May last, and the Regulations thereto
attached. Done at the King’s Council of State, His Majesty
being present, held at Versailles, the ninth of December,
seventeen hundred and eighty.
                                                Amelot

    

Autorise Sa Majesté les premiers Gentilshommes de Sa Chambre à nommer les
Sujets qui composeront le Comité et à les changer quand ils le jugeront
à propos, même à faire tels Reglements qu’ils croiront convenables et à donner
leurs Décisions sur les difficultés qui pourraient s’élever à l’occasion des dits
Réglements, ou du présent arrêt, auxquels Reglements et Décisions les
Comédiens seront tenus de se conformer sous peine de désobeissance. Mande et
ordonne Sa Majesté aux premiers Gentilshommes de Sa Chambre, au Commissaire
général au Bureau de la Maison du Roi ayant le département des Menus,
ou son représentant, de tenir la main, chacun en droit soi, à l’exécution du
prèsent arrêt, Sa Majesté revoquant au surplus et déclarant comme non
avenus les arrêts de son Conseil des dix sept mars et douze mai derniers,
et les Réglements y annexés. Fait au Conseil d’État du Roi, Sa Majesté
y Etant, tenu à Versailles le neuf Décembre mil sept cent quatre vingt.
                                                Amelot

    

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