Sept. 12, 1804

“Royal Court Decree” (‘Hofdekret’) issued by the Austro-Hungarian Government [Present-day Austria, Bosnia-Herzegovina  Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine; Austro-Hungarian Empire]: “Each Jew shall […], identify himself in a fashionable manner at the time he’s applying for a peddling-permit at the County Office (‘Kreisamt’). […]”
Systematische Darstellung aller über den Hausier-Handel bestehenden kaiserl. Königl. österreichischen Gesetze und Verordnungen verfaßt von Friedrich Selner (Systematic Representation of all Imperial Royal Austrian Laws and Ordinances Regarding Peddling Compiled by Friedrich Selner); (1847); Researched and Translated by Ziba Shadjaani 8/13/2017