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|593| partly to these. To the former belonged, among others, in part particular complications concerning the mediatised lords; it was already touched on earlier that it is hard to see how a German assembly of estates is still to come into operation if these relations are not determined beforehand. If such an assembly itself, as it appeared here at first, is to be used as a means of first asserting the claims of this estate, then the estates show precisely thereby that they are not yet organised. – Among the remaining affairs, to be passed over here also on account of their slight interest – the institution of the scribe nuisance has been considered above – the royal proclamation and collection of the annual taxes in particular caused great stir. The king had also begun on 20 October 1815 to have communicated to the estates various elucidations and corrections, contained in the reports of the ministries, of what they had presented in their essay on grievances, together with some altering provisions occasioned thereby. In the elucidations the shallowness of many views presented in the said essay was shown. The assembly afterwards appointed a committee on these matters, but later dissolved it, like most of its committees, without the matters being further dealt with. The whole of the members not included in the negotiating committee were on 29 February united into a large committee of several sections, which were to distribute among themselves the grievances and general matters and to work on them especially. – Of the labours of these sections, however, nothing at all has come to light. Had it come, through their labours, to an effective negotiation with the ministry, there would have happened what had earlier been rejected, namely an entering into the grievances.
In current matters, such as the proclamation and collection of the annual taxes and others, the onset which the assembly felt
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