Some Curiosities of Paris Law.

Auckland Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 143, 18 June 1887, Page 3 (Supplement)

Some Curiosities of Paris Law.

A little book has been published recently which gives the public some insight into ; the functions and power of the Prefect of Pari3. No one is allowed to stick a note on door or window asking for an employe, or post a bill on a bearding unless it be Btampedahd taxed. Advertisers may adopt anjrlcolour they please, except white, which signifies purity, and is exclusively, reserved for official announcements. • Special permission is required to giye an, assault at arms, tut nothing is said about permission to fight adael. If anyone goes to Paris with the idea that lie can start business right off as a rag'pinker, he is mistaken. He will be run in !if found gathering rags without Ca license. ■ Ndreunion or meeting for political or re-iligjous-objects can meet without the con«se|ji of the prefect, and under whatever Conditions he pleases.. In order to hold a jffieeting on a non-political subject, seven persons connected with it must make a desaratjon at th,e prefecture three clear iaysb'efore the day ..of meeting. Special permission is required to give balls and "coafeei'ts, and to perform feats of agility m music halls. Owing to the exigencies or the octroi, cattle, and live : stock are only allowed to enter Paris at -certain hours pi, -ahcl by certain routes. Merchants; of bric-a-brac must be supplificl- with brass medals and . licensed. Dogs are made the subject of a ; series P| '"regulations. ' . Frenchmen '■' seem _to Ye a terror of the bulldog, for it is de-tliat-^.no dog of the race boule dogue .°t a crossed boule° dogue must be allowed' to go at large in the street, in warehouses, ; Workshops,- or other public places. • Inside fases" these dogs must. always be kept m a; sting' 1 or • nruzzled. "• Commissionaires ■ttistmake a declai-ation and get a medal ; and livre't before starting business. Com)%jonaries axe shoeblacks. No organ-; griider,'Btreet musician, or itinerant merexercise his profession without the prefect. No permisis granted unless the applicant has Resided at least a year within the junsdic.bon of the prefect and is French. The R musicians, however, sometimes s;Pla|:? ] withoub permission. Should a. .be in a particularly amicab turn, ! le he will allow an Italian to ■ P% within'his where lie is as abso-. lut e prefect. The prefect supplies *orkme!rwith livrets, without which they Tβ not-ivorth anything ' Porters at the P»Wie markets must have a certificate ot good conduct from the police. Any one ™o saves a drowning person in the'river, fiithei-"by calling- attention to or rescumg .""Ci gets 25f • v/iibever .discovers a corpse, 'ijParfc of:a corpse, in the river, receives sJsf_; f or rescu j a horjsc .6f are allowed. f*Pubiicah guards employed at theatres or iWre paid If per night, if on horseback for a private soiree they get sf.