The Student Life of Germany Part 45

(7) He who offends against ---- 42 and 43.

(8) He who touches in beer a Declarer, and does not immediately revoke the touche. (-- 48.)

(9) A Declarer who touches another who has not declared. (-- 48.)

(10) He who refuses without justifiable ground to act as umpire.

(-- 48.)

(11) He who cribs beer in drinking, or spills the beer of another, or fouls it.

(12) He who forgets his Smollis.[53]

(13) He who touches an Umpire, knowing him to be such.

(14) He who insults or calumniates a Beer-convention.

(15) He who declares the decision of a Beer-convention to be unjust; but this shall not include the appeal to a General.

(16) The Beer-judge who offends against -- 34.

(17) He who declares that he will appeal to a General, and yet does it not on the proper day. (-- 103.)

(18) He who has declared that he would appeal to a General, but makes this later than five minutes after his declaration. (-- 104.)

(19) The beerschisser who sits in Beer-convention, or at all acts in beer-suits.

(20) The beerschisser who, after he has allowed himself to be called upon to be fought-out, revokes. (-- 128.)

(21) The beerschisser who in the fighting-out does not drink in time. (-- 122.)

(22) The beerschisser, who calls a beer-honourable or beer-banned-Appellant, a Beerschisser. (-- 115.)

(23) He who alters or writes down any thing on the beer-tablet, or expunges any thing, without the right to do it (-- 136.)

(24) He who writes down, by his own fault, the name of the be-thundered, or of the accuser-appellant, wrong. (-- 139.)

(25) The be-thundered or accuser-appellant who purposely spells his name wrong to the writer-down. (-- 139.)

(26) He who, indeed, writes down the name of the be-thundered, or of the accuser-appellant on the tablet correctly, but who states a false date or a false quant.i.ty.

(27) He who does not convey the commission of writing down or expunging within five minutes.

(28) Every one whose duty it is to write down or expunge from the tablet, and does not do this within five minutes.

(29) He who gives to another without due authority, an order to alter, or to write down upon, or to expunge any thing from the tablet.

(-- 138.)

(30) He who does not call a Beer-convent upon a fact which renders liable to the setting-forth of a viertel.

(31) When one is caught-out--that is, if he lifts the lid of a covered gla.s.s (and jugs and bottles are also included) in which so much beer yet remains as will cover the bottom, so far that another can insinuate his hand between the vessel and the lid, and thereupon cry "caught-out;" or when one is caught-out who covers an empty gla.s.s, though this latter person is under no necessity to cover the empty gla.s.s again.

(32) He who catches out without cause--that is, he who catches one out, who in the lifting of his lid has said--"without catching-out;" or who, while the beer is pouring puts his hand between; or who makes an erroneous catching-out with an empty gla.s.s.

(33) He who speaks ill of any of the Faculties.

II. SHARPER BEER PENALTIES.

-- 135. The sharper beer-penalty is, when any one is be-thundered at the same time to more than one viertel, or to beer-banishment and beer-setting-forth.

(_a_) HE IS CONDEMNED TO MORE THAN ONE VIERTEL,

(1) Who offends against -- 44.

(2) The accuser who, going before the General, fails to make good his accusation, and is mulct in two viertels. (-- 108).

(3) The Beerschisser, who does not cause himself to be fought-out within the proper period, falls under the penalty of -- 117.

(_b_) THEY ARE CONDEMNED TO BEER-BANISHMENT AND BEER SETTING-FORTH:

(1) False witnesses, (-- 81.)

(2) Those who disturb the proceedings of the Beer-convention for the fourth time, either by speaking, crying out, singing, or whispering to one another, after silence has been three times commanded. (---- 87 and 106.)

(3) All those who act contrary to -- 65.

(_c_) THEY ARE CONDEMNED TO THE SETTING OUT OF TWO VIERTELS AND TO BEER-BANISHMENT.

(1) The Beer-judges whom the General Beer-convention reproves.

(2) He who abuses this Beer-comment, or alters any thing in it.

t.i.tULUS IX.

OF THE BEER-TABLET.

-- 136. In every special kneip a Beer-tablet is to be hung up; upon which the names of Beerschisser, Viertel-out-setters, and Accuser-appellants are written, under different rubrics, with addition of their respective dates and quant.i.ties.

137. No one may write any thing upon the Beer-tablet, alter, or expunge any thing, who has not received a commission to that purpose, from a beer-judge, an umpire, a president of a beer-commers, or from one who has declared the Beerschisser to be Beer-honourable.

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.