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- 4 - which was also granted to him "on the basis of the Most Highs Resolu- 1) zion of 23 May 1772", issued with the date of "l3 June l772". This Privilege Impressorium privatium authorized the school fund to issue "catechisms, Gospels, spelling, reading and calculation books, then all the rest to teach the teachers both, as their teachers, or otherwise set up in the doctrine of religion and morals, or in the general education Werck on whatever kind of teaching books, Ta- 1) bark and writings". This privilege was ultimately an exclusive and justified not only for publishing, but also for the sole cover-up of the textbooks. The dissemination of these textbooks, published by the Schulbücher publishing house, was considered to be free activity in the country. In Vienna itself, the sale 2) was limited to the vault of the Schulbuch publishing house. In the year 1775, the over-extended load required a decentralization, through which also the k. k. Schulbücher-Verlag in Prague was created, the di- rect predecessor of today's Czechoslovak state publishing house. June l775, whereby "all school commissions in the Kays.Königl.Erbländer make the permit, the trivial objects, as which make up the largest number, •. print in each country