Apr. 27, 1722

Travel Regulations, issued by the City of Frankfurt [Present-day Germany]: “XVI. Traveling Jews, however, shall obtain a signature on their passports at each and every waypoint on their journeys, so that they may be able to show, upon their return, that they did not travel to a suspect place, nor had any intercourse with suspicious persons.”
Ordnung und Reglement was bey noch fuehrwehrender Gefahr der leydigen Contagion… (Ordinance and Regulation, regarding the ongoing Danger of the Plague… ). Hesse Decrees Collection; Folder 1; Leo Baeck Institute. Researched by Dominik Jacobs 01/02/2020