This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...must march, then the fourth, fifth, sixth, and, in case of need, even the seventh and eighth are constituted. Three always remain in the country, the others proceed to war. The soldiers of the military frontier get the same pay as all jother Austrian soldiers, but only when they are out of their ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1850 edition. Excerpt: ...must march, then the fourth, fifth, sixth, and, in case of need, even the seventh and eighth are constituted. Three always remain in the country, the others proceed to war. The soldiers of the military frontier get the same pay as all jother Austrian soldiers, but only when they are out of their country; moreover, the booty they get in war is their own, of which they may freely dispose, even when they return to their Sessions. Except in this regard, no one has any property; not even the Patriarch is to be excepted, for he is only the manager for all the members of the Session, and can at any moment be dismissed by the ruling officer. As over the whole military frontier no civil law or civil court exists, but martial law and martial courts reign alone, of course no industry can expand itself; nor does any one feel the oppressive consequences of these institutions more than the inhabitants of the towns of those districts--Zeng, Carlopago, Petrinia, Brod, Petervarad, Karlovicz, Bellovar, Zemlin, Pancsova, Weisskirchen. A part of these citizens are German colonists, but all are subordinated to the military service and rule. They have a common council, but presided over by an officer. The inhabitants of the military frontier are bound to remain on their soil. They are not allowed to emigrate to any other part of the monarchy; and those only who are unfit for military service, or who are specially favoured by the Imperial Council of War may become artizans, artists, merchants, &c. Even to attend the higher schools, they all require express permission. How prejudicially such a system must act on the culture of those districts--how oppressive it must prove to the inhabitants--how much it necessarily demoralizes in war the character of the...
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