A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . v. xic iAn\ wer^f^U^ COn ciUorU .1:^;^,;^. e Capitularies of Charlemagne, dated 82S A. Library, cod. 733. FINANCE AND LAND. 93 Local needs did not really concern the imperial government at all,because every service which the public interest demanded had to berendered in the very place where it was required. Where a bridgewas needed, the inhabitants were obliged to supply the necessarybuilding-material and workmen ; just as when the army took thefield, that district in which it happened to be at any giv
A history of all nations from the earliest times; being a universal historical library . v. xic iAn\ wer^f^U^ COn ciUorU .1:^;^,;^. e Capitularies of Charlemagne, dated 82S A. Library, cod. 733. FINANCE AND LAND. 93 Local needs did not really concern the imperial government at all,because every service which the public interest demanded had to berendered in the very place where it was required. Where a bridgewas needed, the inhabitants were obliged to supply the necessarybuilding-material and workmen ; just as when the army took thefield, that district in which it happened to be at any given time wasobliged to supply it with provisions and forage. Hence the staterequired little from its subjects except their labor and the productsof the soil. This simplified matters of finance in an extraordinarydegree. Of course even the empire of Charlemagne could not en-tirely dispense with a department of finance ; but this was regardedentirely from the standpoint of individual rights, and treated thefiscal management of the state as identical with that of the kingsdomestic finances. The necessary income was derived from v
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