138. He who has received the commission for expunging or writing down, must do this within five minutes: otherwise he is be-thundered in a viertel. He who gives an unauthorized commission falls under the same penalty. But in this case, he who has received the commission to write down or expunge, is not punishable.
139. If any one has received a commission to write down a be-thundered in the Beer-tablet; but the be-thundered declares that he shall appeal to the general Beer-convention, the writer-down must note this by the addition of the two letters B. A. under the name of the be-thundered. So also the writer-down must place in the proper rubric him who has proceeded as accuser before a special Beer-convention, and declare that he will appeal to a General one.
140. Every one who has received a commission to write any one down in the Beer-tablet, has a right to ask the same how he writes his name, whereupon that person must clearly spell it out to him. If the commissioner does not ask the name of the to-be-written-down, or has this person spelt his name out rightly to him, and he yet, in both eases, write it down wrong, he is thereupon be-thundered in a viertel, without in this case the one to-be-written-down being freed from his penalty. But if the to-be-written-down gives him his name wrong, then he falls under the penalty.
141. He who has written down any one with authority on the Beer-tablet, and has written him down wrong, is to be called before a future Special Beer-convention. This Beer-convention has to take care that the fault of him who received the commission be amended.
[The remainder of this Beer-Comment is given in the chapter describing a Commers.]
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 1]: The author here makes no charge against the great numbers of high-minded and gentlemanly young men who pass through, and confer distinction on, our universities; but, as before observed, alludes only to that class and those parties, which are not only depicted by the Westminster Review, but so fully described by the Editor of the Quarterly Review, in "Reginald Dalton."
[Footnote 2]: The term Rechtspracticant implies the commonest, the lowest, and most tedious stage of a statesman's career: in fact, while he is acting as a clerk or pupil in the amtmann's office, he acquires practical knowledge of the administration of justice.
[Footnote 3]: The words in the original are "on their Cerevis," a student term, "on their beer;" meaning, in the beer-court, on their honour.
[Footnote 4]: Inhabitants of the Marsch.