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HALL OF THE TROPHIES
ΙΙ.7.A.11
Letters of plenipotentiaries about imposing a ceiling price on meat
(Merzes, 18 June 1822)
Archives of the Greek Regeneration, vol. 15c, nos 64, 65 [pp. 65-66] Library of the Hellenic Parliament arliament
THE PLENIPOTENTIARIES ask for the mediation of the Administration in the negotiations on the price of beef meat with the butchers of Mer- zes. More specifically, they consider as excessive the
proposed price of twenty-four paras an oka and ask for the imposition of a ceiling price at twenty-two, in order to reach the soonest possible an agreement and supply with meat the fortress of Nafplio.
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