"STEALING" SEA WATER.
A very curious case has occurred at Paris Plage, near Boulogne-sur-Mer. A lady who drew two buckets of water from tho sea in order to give her children a warm sea-water bath, as ordered by the doctor, was threatened with a fine for doing co by two passing Customs officers. She was obliged to write on a sheet of paper what she wanted the water for, and obtain permission from the authorities, before she was allowed to take water from the sea. Itappears that in the reign of Louis XIV. a decree was passed forbidding people to take sea water without special permission lest they should extract the salt from it and so defraud the revenue.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12591, 6 September 1906, Page 7
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