Paying agents to deport “foreign vagrants.”

[Deportation]. Tariffa Di spese da pagarsi dal Fisco per le accompagnature dei Vagabondi Forestieri fino ai Confini, e dei Relegati nella Provincia Inferiore, qualora convenga tale accompagnatura. S.l. [Florence]: s.n., [1787]. Folio [30.0 x 21.3 cm], [2] ff. Unbound. Wrinkling, minor mostly marginal staining.
 
 
Unrecorded official document from 18th-century Florence regulating the “Expenses to be paid by the Treasury for escorting foreign vagrants to the borders.” These expenses were to cover “two guards who will accompany each vagrant or banished person, for each day” and “maintenance and living expenses of the vagrant or banished person, whether by land or by water, in an inn or in prison, for each day,” which was to include “a room, lighting, bed, fire, etc., for which the officers may not demand anything extra.”
 
The document is addressed to “His Royal Highness,” i.e., Leopold I, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1747-92), who later was to become Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor. The document is certainly related to the Leopoldine Code enacted in 1786 to reform criminal laws according to Enlightenment ideas, e.g., by replacing torture and execution with fines, house arrest, imprisonment, exile or forced labor.
 
 
OCLC, KVK and OPAC/SBN/ICCU locate only the copy at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (K10plus 480225249; OCLC 254491298).