Saladin promptly impressed the inhabitants of the town by publishing a decree that ordered a number of taxes to be canceled and erased all mention of them from treasury records, stating " the most miserable rulers are those whose purses are fat and their people thin.

This petition was submitted to the county in early June, the final decree of incorporation was made on June 11, and was officially entered into the records on June 17.

For example, Seldon suggests a decree that erases terrorists ' names from records, denying them immortality, discouraging chaotic actions.

However records are sparse, reduced to mentioning large vineyards and a decree on how to keep hungry goats away from the grapes.

By decree of Ptolemy III Euergetes, all visitors to the city were required to surrender all books and scrolls, as well as any form of written media in any language in their possession which, according to Galen, were listed under the heading " books of the ships ".

The Rosetta Stone is an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree issued at Memphis in 196 BC on behalf of King Ptolemy V. The decree appears in three scripts: the upper text is Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, the middle portion Demotic script, and the lowest Ancient Greek.

Two other fragmentary copies of the same decree were discovered later, and several similar Egyptian bilingual or trilingual inscriptions are now known, including two slightly earlier Ptolemaic decrees ( the Decree of Canopus in 238 BC, and the Memphis decree of Ptolemy IV, ca.

The slightly earlier decree of Canopus, erected in 238 BC during the reign of Ptolemy III, is high and wide, and contains 36 lines of hieroglyphic text, 73 of demotic text, and 74 of Greek.

The stele was erected after the coronation of King Ptolemy V, and was inscribed with a decree that established the divine cult of the new ruler.

Both the war and the internal revolt were still ongoing when the young Ptolemy V was officially crowned at Memphis at the age of 12 ( seven years after the start of his reign ), and the Memphis decree issued.

However, an oracle was found in the Sibylline Books that forbade Ptolemy ’ s restoration and the senate was forced to rescind its decree.

The modern name Ptolemaida was introduced by decree on January 20, 1927, honoring Ptolemy son of Lagus, a comrade-in-arms of Alexander the Great, and his daughter Ptolemaïs.

In Ptolemy III Euergetes ' ninth regnal year ( 239 BC ), a great assembly of priests at Canopus passed an honorific decree ( the " Decree of Canopus ") that, inter alia, conferred various new titles on the king and his consort, Berenice.

The decree appears to have been created during Ptolemy IV's military reign.

The inscription is a decree by Egyptian priests honoring Pharaoh Ptolemy III Euergetes ; Queen Berenice, his wife ; and Princess Berenice

He is referred to as " Lord of both lands ", i. e. King of Upper and Lower Egypt, and as " Son of the Sun ", another pharaonic title, and given the throne name of Senen-setep-en-Ptah in a decree by Ptolemy Lagides, who became King Ptolemy I Soter in 305 BCE.

In 1616, on the orders of Paul V, Bellarmine summoned Galileo, notified him of a forthcoming decree of the Congregation of the Index condemning the Copernican doctrine of the mobility of the Earth and the immobility of the Sun, and ordered him to abandon it .< ref > Blackwell ( 1991, p. 126 ).

Under the 1587 decree of Pope Sixtus V, which fixed the maximum size of the College of Cardinals, there were 14 cardinal deacons.

On 5 December 1719, with Philip V fast becoming the common enemy of all Europe, Alberoni was ordered to leave Spain, Elizabeth herself having taken an active part in procuring the decree of banishment.

Uncertainties over the departure of Pedro de Mendoza led Charles V to promulgate a cédula ( decree ) that was unique in colonial Latin America.

In accordance with a decree of the Council of Constance, ordering that councils should be held every five years, Martin V summoned a council in 1423 that met first at Pavia and later at Siena ( the " Council of Siena ").

Pope Clement V ordered by decree the suppression of the order.

In February 1701, the French King caused the Parlement of Paris ( a court ) to register a decree that should Louis himself have no heir then the Duke of Anjou — Phillip V of Spain — would surrender the Spanish throne for that of the French, ensuring dynastic continuity in Europe's greatest land power.

Under pressure for ecclesiastical reform Pope Martin V sanctioned a decree of the Council of Constance ( 9 October 1417 ) obliging the papacy to summon general councils periodically.

At the expiration of the first term fixed by this decree, Pope Martin V complied by calling a council at Pavia.

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In February 1701, the French King caused the Parlement of Paris ( a court ) to register a decree that should Louis himself have no heir that the Duc d ' Anjou ( Phillip V of Spain ) would surrender the Spanish throne for that of the French, ensuring dynastic continuity in Europe's greatest land power.

: V. The Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces determines in which occupied territories this decree is to be applied.

Finally, in 1526, King Charles V issued a decree compelling all Muslims in the crown of Aragon to convert to Catholicism or leave the Iberian Peninsula ( Portugal had already expelled or forcibly converted its Muslims in 1497 and would establish its own Inquisition in 1536 ).

On 9 July 1568, Pope Pius V, the successor of the Pope who closed the Council of Trent, promulgated an edition, known as the Roman Breviary, with his Apostolic Constitution Quod a nobis, imposing it in the same way in which, two years later, he imposed his Roman Missal and using language very similar to that in the bull Quo primum with which he promulgated the Missal, regarding, for instance, the perpetual force of its provisions, the obligation to use the promulgated text in all places, and the total prohibition of adding or omitting anything, declaring in fact: " No one whosoever is permitted to alter this letter or heedlessly to venture to go contrary to this notice of Our permission, statute, ordinance, command, precept, grant, indult declaration, will decree and prohibition.

Whereas some have dared to assert concerning the nature of the reasonable soul that it is mortal, we, with the approbation of the sacred council do condemn and reprobate all those who assert that the intellectual soul is mortal, seeing, according to the canon of Pope Clement V, that the soul is [...] immortal [...] and we decree that all who adhere to like erroneous assertions shall be shunned and punished as heretics.

The decree granting a coat of arms to Alonso Pita da Veiga for his deeds at the Battle of Pavia, was archived at the General Archive of Simanca ( Archivo general de Simancas, legajo 388, rotulado de " Mercedes y Privilegios .’) and was issued by Emperor Charles V on 24 July 1529.

In that decree, Charles V does not credit a single individual but, rather, a group of individuals that included Alonso Pita da Veiga: " ..... and in the same battle, you ( Alonso Pita da Veiga ) accomplished so much that you reached the person of said King ( Francis I of France ) and captured him, jointly with the other persons that captured him .” (" .... y en la misma batalla ficistes tanto que allegastes á la misma persona del dicho Rey, y fuistes en prenderle, juntamente con las otras personas que le prendieron ....")

In 1533 a decree of the Scottish clergy, prohibiting the reading of the New Testament by the laity, drew from Alesius a defence of the right of the people, in the form of a letter to King James V of Scotland ( 1513 – 42 ).

A month after the composer had received the Lenin Prize, a Central Committee resolution " correcting the errors " of the 1948 decree restored all those affected by it to official favor, blaming their treatment on " J. V.

When Charles V issued an edict to expel the Jews from Naples, Benvenida, with the assistance of Leonora, intervened in their behalf so effectively that the decree was revoked.

A decree of Pope Alexander III, 1170, gave the prerogative to the pope thenceforth, so far as the Western Church was concerned .”

The famous decree Haec Sancta Synodus, which gave primacy to the authority of the Council and thus became a source for ecclesial conciliarism, was promulgated in the fifth session, 6 April 1415:

An Imperial decree of 19 September 1622 gave the Jesuits supreme control over the entire school system of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia.

During the campaign he had issued a decree for 900, 000 fresh conscripts, but only a fraction of these ever materialized, and Napoleon's schemes for victory eventually gave way to the reality of the hopeless situation.

In a royal decree of 1713, the king gave legality to the first free population of the continent: Palenque de San Basilio in Colombia today, led by Benkos Bioho.

According to his memoirs, Haussmann's use of the title baron was based on his elevation to the Senate and to an 1857 decree of the emperor's that gave Senate members the title of baron ; his memoirs further stated that he joked that he might consider the title aqueduc, ( a pun on the French words for ' duke ' and ' aqueduct ') but that no such title existed.

According to John Paul II's decree on Escrivá's " cause of canonization ", which contains a condensed biography of Escrivá, " o this mission he gave himself totally.

The Enabling Act was a special law which gave the Chancellor the power to pass laws by decree without the involvement of the Reichstag.

The Enabling Act, which gave Hitler the right to rule by decree, passed easily on March 23, 1933.

The Brazilian national anthem () was composed by Francisco Manuel da Silva in 1831 and had been given at least two sets of unofficial lyrics before a 1922 decree by President Epitácio Pessoa gave the anthem its definitive, official lyrics, by Joaquim Osório Duque-Estrada, after several changes were made to his proposal, written in 1909.

" This gave great offence to Pope Boniface I and the emperor Honorius, and the decree was never put into execution.

An imperial decree gave Kūkai exclusive use of Tō-ji for the Shingon School, which set a new precedent in an environment where previously temples had been open to all forms of Buddhism.

Article 48, the so-called Notverordnung ( emergency decree ) provision, gave the president broad powers to suspend civil liberties with an insufficient system of checks and balances.

This decree gave the archbishop of Baltimore precedence over all other archbishops of the United States ( but not cardinals ) in councils, gatherings, and meetings of whatever kind of the hierarchy ( in conciliis, coetibus et comitiis quibuscumque ), regardless of the seniority of other archbishops in promotion or ordination.

During the campaign he had issued a decree for 900, 000 fresh conscripts, but only a fraction of these were ever raised and Napoleon's increasingly unrealistic schemes for victory eventually gave way to the reality of the hopeless situation.

: The President of the United States of Mexico, know ye: That desiring to celebrate in the year of 1829 the anniversary of our independence with an act of justice and national beneficence, which might result in the benefit and support of a good, so highly to be appreciated, which might cement more and more the public tranquility, which might reinstate an unfortunate part of its inhabitants in the sacred rights which nature gave them, and which the nation protects by wise and just laws, in conformance with the 30th article of the constitutive act, in which the use of extraordinary powers are ceded to me, I have thought it proper to decree:

Stalin soon made a public decree that any and all opposition views should be considered dangerous and gave the GPU the authority to seek out hostile elements.

Belgium's French Community gave full official recognition to Picard as a regional language along with Walloon, Gaumais ( Lorraine ), Champenois ( Champagne ) and German Frankish in its 1990 decree.

After the Habsburgs got nothing from the decree of the Golden Bull in 1356, he gave order to draw up the " Privilegium Maius ", a fake document to empower the Austrian rulers.

King Edward II of England ( 1284 – 1330 ) is one who gave such a decree.

On 6 September 1991 a presidential decree temporarily gave the IEC the same authority as the Cabinet of Ministers, and Silayev became the Soviet Union's de facto Premier.

This decree was not published until after the pope, having commended the matter to God in prayer, gave a final consent and confirmed by his supreme sentence the decision of the congregation.

Finally, on May 4, 1990, a decree of the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR gave the city back its original name.

When von Hindenburg gave his authority and issued the decree, the Reichstag repudiated the decree by a slight majority on July 18, 1930.