Note 22 — Chapter IV
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We have already seen that no such regulation exists. The following is the text of the regulation made use of by M. Héridier in the expulsion of Miss Booth:—
Police Regulation upon House to House Collections, March 4th, 1879.
The Council of State, upon the proposition of the Department of Justice and Police decrees:—
Article I. That no collection from house to house or in the streets shall take place on behalf of a religious establishment, public, charitable or beneficent institution, or other, &c., &c., nor to the profit of a legal foundation, nor of any association whatever, without the authorization of the Council of State....
Article II. Any private person desiring to make a collection from house to house, in his personal interest, must previously obtain in writing the authorization of the Department of Justice and Police.
Article VII. Anyone contravening this regulation will be punishable by Police penalties indicated in the law 23rd October, 1876, &c.
Signed by the Chancellor,
Etienne Patru.