Mar. 5, 1790

Court decree, issued by Leopold II, Archduke of Austria [Present-day Austria]: “Jewish apprentices shall not be granted a journeyman license, unless they can prove, by way of a certificate, that they have attended a German school, with progress, for at least two years.”
Fauller, Chrysostomus. Gesetze, Verordnungen und Vorschriften für die Polizei-Verwaltung im Kaiserthume Oesterreich: Erschienen in den Jahren 1740 bis Ende 1825, und in alphabetisch-chronologischer Ordnung zusammengestellt, mit vorzüglicher Rücksicht auf Nieder-Oesterreich, Zweiter Band (Laws, Ordinances and Regulations for the Administration of Police: Published in the Years 1740 Until the End of 1825, and Compiled in Chronological Order, Under Excellent Consideration of Lower Austria, Volume Two). Geistinger: Vienna, 1828. Page 309. Researched by Dominik Jacobs 3/7/2020