CONSULS OF ISLANDS OF THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN

[France. Louis XV:] Reglement pour les droits des Consuls & Vice-Consuls des Eschelles de Negrepont, la Cavalle, Rhodes, Metelin, Scio, Milo, Tine & Miconi. Du 28. Fevrier 1732. De par le Roy. [colophon:] A Paris, de l'Imprimerie Royale 1732.

Rights of French consuls to extract dues from trade carrying the French flag, passing through their posts in Euboea, Kavaje in Albania, Rhodes, Lesbos, Skios, Milos, Tinos and Mykonos.

These places are given separate headings, and descriptions of the consul's rights. In Euboea, the consul could charge a two per cent fee on any goods loaded onto a ship, and a further two piastres for anchorage. This applied whether the ship had been chartered by a subject of the Ottoman Empire or was sailing for the ship's French captain or owners. In Lesbos, the same ships would pay either eight or twelve piastres for loading, depending on their size, and then a further four for anchorage.

The vice-consul of Skios could collect four hundred piastres a year from the French inhabitants of Izmir, for water rights.

Details

4to., pp. 7 [1]. Disbound. Woodcut pictorial head-piece to p. 1. Light browning, a good copy.

Actes Royaux 30709. Firstsearch (01/18) shows copy at Bibliothèque Nationale only.