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Ecclesiastics, military, & civil, in order to receive half-year wages without it being lawful to bring delay, to withhold any portion, on pain of being banished, or hanged without any remission, for as much as such persons are thieves & brigands, stealing all the grace of good deeds in doing so, diminishing the affection of the officers towards the Prince & preventing them from carrying out their duties, with such cheerfulness & promptness as is necessary. The Treasurer has a thousand escus salary, the Commis two hundred, the Griffier[1] one hundred & fifty; & sixty to the Sergeants with their exercises: The Griffier records the payments & the Treasurer retains that collected by him until the end of the year when he renders his account before the President & the Councillors. The other half-year having expired, he does the same until full payment. If it is necessary for the parishes to contribute, which happens very rarely, it is done with great justice & equality. For as we have said, each civil Dizenier, of both towns & villages are commanded to faithfully report the value of the property of each, both movable & immovable, to their Centeniers, the Centeniers to the Milleniers |
| 1. Griffier, Registrar, Clerk of the court. |
