CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION. - Lot 21

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CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION. - Lot 21
CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION. Commission for a lieutenant of the mounted police, with successive confirmations and registrations. Paris, Charleville, and Guîtres, 1816–1818. Important printed administrative document with numerous handwritten notes, 1 large folio sheet on laid paper, printed on both sides, bearing the royal coat of arms and several handwritten administrative signatures. Official commission issued by the Customs Administration during the Second Restoration, appointing Jean-Baptiste Pelluch (probable reading) as mounted lieutenant in the Charleville Directorate, with the appointment taking effect on July 1, 1816. The decree, dated July 20, 1816, is signed by the Councilor of State, Director General of the Customs Administration, and then certified as true by the division chief in charge of personnel. The reverse side lists the main duties of the mounted lieutenant: supervising customs officers, collecting customs duties, enforcing prohibitions, maintaining discipline, training brigades, enforcing regulations, and taking the oath of office before the justice of the peace. The document subsequently received numerous handwritten annotations detailing the career of its holder: approval and assumption of duties in Charleville in September 1816; mention of the swearing-in; registration with the court clerk’s office in accordance with the legislation in force; transcription of the entry in the civil court register on July 18, 1818, pursuant to the law of April 21, 1818; finally, a handwritten annotation indicating an assignment to Guîtres, near Bordeaux. A rare career document preserving all the administrative formalities accompanying the appointment of a Royal Customs officer in the aftermath of the fall of the Empire. Through the succession of endorsements, certificates, registrations, and transfers, it provides a particularly vivid illustration of how the customs administration functioned during the Restoration and the oversight exercised over its agents. A fine administrative document, richly annotated, bringing together the appointment decree, letter of appointment, oaths of office, and official registrations—a remarkable testament to the organization of the French Royal Customs Service at the beginning of the Second Restoration.
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