humanities.philosophy.objectivism

but death and taxes. Sometimes they even go together.

Tariff for Torture
1. For tearing apart and quartering by four horses 5 Thaler / 26 Albus
2. For quartering 4 / 0
3. For the necessary rope for that purpose 1 / 0
4. For hanging the four quarters in four corners, the necessary rope,
nails, chains, and the transport included 5 / 26
5. For beheading and burning, everything included 5 / 26
6. For the necessary rope for this procedure, and for preparing and
igniting the stake 2 / 0
7. For strangling and burning 4 / 0
8. For rope and for preparing and igniting the stake 2 / 0
9. For burning alive 4 / 0
10. For rope and for preparing and igniting the stake 2 / 0
11. For breaking alive on the wheel 4 / 0
12. For rope and chains for this procedure 2 / 0
13. For setting up the body which is tied to the wheel 2 / 52
14. For beheading only 2 / 52
15. For the necessary rope for this purpose and for cloth to cover the
face 1 / 0
16. For making a hole and disposing of the corpse 1 / 26
17. For beheading and tying the body on the wheel 4 / 0
18. For the necessary rope and chains, together with the cloth 2 / 0
19. For cutting off a hand or several fingers and for beheading, all
together 3 / 26
20. The same: in addition, for burning with a hot iron 1 / 26
21. For the necessary rope and cloth 1 / 26
22. For beheading and sticking the head on a pole 3 / 26
23. For the necessary rope and cloth 1 / 26
24. For beheading and tying the body on the wheel and for sticking the
head on a pole, all together 5 / 0
25. For the necessary rope, chains, and cloth 2 / 0
26. For hanging 2 / 52
27. For the necessary rope, nails, and chain needed for that purpose 1
/ 26
28. Before the actual execution starts, for squeezing the delinquent
with red-hot tongs, apart from the above-mentioned fee for hanging,
for every application 0 / 26
29. For cutting out the tongue entirely, or part of it, and afterwards
for burning the mouth with a red-hot iron 5 / 0
30. For this procedure, the usual rope, tongs, and knife 2 / 0
31. For nailing to the gallows a cut-off tongue or a chopped-off hand
1 / 26
32. For one who has hanged himself, or drowned himself, or otherwise
taken his own life: to take down, remove, and dig a hole to dispose of
the corpse 2 / 0
33. For exiling a person from the city or country 0 / 52
34. For flogging in jail, including the rods 1 / 0
35. For thrashing 0 / 52
36. For putting in the pillory 0 / 52
37. For putting in the pillory, and for whipping, including the rope
and the rods 1 / 26
38. For putting in the pillory, branding, and whipping, including
coals, rope, and rods, also the branding ointment 2 / 0
39. For inspecting a prisoner after he has been branded 0 / 20
40. For putting the ladder to the gallows, regardless whether one or
several are hanged on the same day 2 / 0

Concerning Torture
41. For terrorizing by showing the instruments of torture 1 / 0
42. For the first degree of torture 1 / 26
43. For arranging and crushing the thumb for this degree 0 / 26
44. For the second degree of torture, including setting the limbs
afterward, and for salve which is used 2 / 26
45. Should, however, a person be tortured in both degrees of torture,
the executioner is to get for both degrees performed at the same time,
setting the limbs afterward and for use of the salve, for all this he
should be paid 6 / 0
46. For travel and daily expenses for every day, exclusive, however,
of the days of execution or torture, regardless whether on these days
one or several criminals are punished 0 / 48
47. For daily food 1 / 26
48. For each help 0 / 39
49. For hiring a horse, together with fodder and stabling, the daily
fee 1 / 16
50. If a torture or execution takes place in Cologne, the executioner
shall receive for this procedure the aforementioned execution fees,
without any addition of
other extra expenses, such as travel, daily expenses, food, horse hay
and fodder; and he has to be satisfied with the above-mentioned
execution fee.
51. When he performs executions in Melaten and Deutz, he receives
extra expenses for hay for his horse, and nothing else.
52. Since items 16, 32, and 40 of the present rules fall within the
province of the weapons master, therefore the weapons master should
receive the respective fees.
53. Should the executioner perform functions for those who are vassals
or sub-vassals of the archbishopric, he should receive one third more
than before specified, the reason being that he enjoys his yearly
investiture without any emolument from the aforesaid vassals.
54. Only the executioner and no stranger shall be employed by the
vassals or sub-vassals for whatever executions have to be done.
55. Because there have been many complaints that at an execution where
an official of the archbishopric presides, the executioner, either in
addition to accepting the fees, or instead of accepting them, dared to
demand a certain sum of money, and since this demand is regarded as an
abuse, it is once and for all forbidden.
Therefore, herewith we order that every official of the archbishopric
keep strictly to the above-mentioned rules and pay the executioners
only the stipulated fees and nothing else, any time there is an
execution; and they are asked to submit afterward their accounts with
all their vouchers to the treasury of the archbishop.

Given at Bonn, January 15, 1757.

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