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§. 2. The palatinate oi Neuburg has always a vote in the circle of Bavaria.
Before the latter too obtained the eledloral dignity, it had long contefts
with the palatinate of Neuburg ; but the eledoral dignity of thePfalzgrave
defcending to Bavaria in 1623, the Pialzgrave of AW'^^'z-j- voluntarily
yielded precedence to the Elecflur of Ba^-nria. in 1697, the P^a!^g^ave of
Sulzbacb was unanimoufly (the vote of the Pfalzgrave of Neuburg excepted)
received among the States of the circle of Bavaria, which reception was
confirmed by the Emperor in the year 1701 ; but on this account the Palatine
of Sulzbacb withdrew for a long time from the circle, and Lcuchtenbag
oppofed the precedence of Sulzbacb.
§,3. In the Diet of the Empire the Eleöor-palatine is poiTefled both of
feat and voice in the college of imperial Princes for the dutchy of Neuburg,
but for the palatinate oi Sulzbacb he has not yet received introduftion, notwithftanding
the whole Diet, in the lafl: century, declared in favor of his
claim, and gave hopes that the Pfalzgrave oi Sulzbacb {hovAd be admitted as
a State of the circle of Bavaria.
§.4. Before thefe countries became two principalities they paid to a
Roman month twenty horfe and one hundred foot, or fix hundred and forty
florins ; but afterwards each principality furnilhed its own particular quota.
Some contefts indeed arofe on this head betwixt them, but thefe have ceafed
ever fince the union of the principalities under one Sovereign. For the
lordQiip of Heydeck, the Pfalzgrave of Neuburg pays in particular five
horfe and feven foot, or eighty-eight florins, and to the chamber at Wetzlar
his quota is three hundred and forty rixdollars, feventy-three kruitzcrs and
one eighth; that of Sulzbacb being forty-eight rixdollars, fifty kruitzers and
five eighths.
§.5. With refpea:,
NEUBURG.
I. To the D u T c H Y of
It enjoys a government of its own, together with a chamber of juftice and
a prefeÄurate-office. In it, indeed, are lliill fome Lutheran fiefs, but the prevailing
religion here is the iJow^w-catholic. The bailiwicks belonging to
this dutchy lie difperfed. Its remarkable places are,
I. The following land-richter and pfleg-amts : viz.
I. The town and pfleg-amt of Neuburg. In it is
Neuburg, the capital of the whole dutchy, and the feat of the government,
tribunal and prefedlurate, ftanding in a good fituation on a hill on the
Danube, and being alfo well-built and fortified, with a palace in it and a
handfome college of Jefuits, which was formerly a nunnery of ladies. Ar :
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