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The Prussian Law on Freedom of Trade, signed by State Chancellor Hardenberg and King Frederick William III (September 7, 1811)

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62. On the other hand, he may peddle them outside of his residence in cities and in the country only to the extent that he has purchased a separate trade license as an itinerant trader in accordance with § 136.

63. Everyone may manufacture the materials and tools he needs for his trade, though only for his own use, without obtaining a separate trade license for that purpose.

64. Anyone who is authorized by his trade license to perform works of a specific kind may, on the basis of that license, perform all the tasks necessary to complete these works.

For example, a wagon maker can perform all the work of cartwrights, wheelrights, joiners, turners, locksmiths, beltmakers, leathermakers, saddlers, varnishers, and painters, as well as other work done in his workshop as part of the production of his wagons, or as part of the repair of similar ones, without obtaining separate trade licenses for these various jobs.

65. The trade licenses for works of a certain kind should be issued as generally as possible, and overly detailed trade distinctions shall be avoided. [ . . . ]

79. Everyone can obtain as many different trade licenses and pursue as many different trades as he wishes on a simultaneous basis.

80. Exceptions are made only to the extent that they are explicitly spelled out in § 20 of the Edict of November 2 of the previous year, or may be specifically ordered in the future by the state police authorities.

81. It is left to the discretion of every agency to decide which trades its officers are prohibited from practicing in accordance with § 19 of the Edict of November 2. No officer is authorized to gainsay such refusals. However, in the case of officers, the possession of landed estates always entails the permission to engage in the trades that are commonly connected to the running of agricultural operations.

82. Although § 21 of the Edict of November 2 has already stipulated the trades for which the permission to pursue the same shall depend on proof of special qualities, a few other trades shall be subject to the same special oversight, and the following regulations shall be observed with respect to this: [ . . . ]

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