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1013.

If it be not reported there that this is to be a public canal, it will be necessary to pay for the land;  542 and the king will pay it by remitting the taxes for a year.


Footnotes

232:542 3: il re. Louis XII or Francis I of France. It is hardly possible to doubt that the canals here spoken of were intended to be in the Milanese. Compare with this passage the rough copy of a letter by Leonardo, to the "Presidente dell' Ufficio regolatore dell' acqua" on No. 1350. See also the note to No. 745, 1. 12.


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