Sept. 21, 1802

“Decree” of the Royal Court Chamber addressed to all Border-Patrol-Administrators (‘Bancal-Gefällen-Administrationen’) [Present-day Austria]: “[…] the [border-patrol] administrators […] may not – under any circumstances – permit [Jewish] vagrants to pass/enter, and [they must] refrain completely from issuing a Jew a passport. […]”
Beyträge zur politischen Gesetzkunde im österreichischen Kaiserstaate; Herausgegeben von Johann Ludwig Ehrereich (Graf von Barth-Barthenheim): Erster Band; (Wien; 1821); (Contributions to the Political Statutes of the Austrian Royal State; published by Johann Ludwig Ehrereich (Earl of Barth-Barthenheim); (Volume I); (Vienna; 1821); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 12/27/2017