Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1894 — Buying Titles Abroad. [ARTICLE]

Buying Titles Abroad.

In Portugal, where aU hereditary titles have been abolished, and where they are held only for life, it is possible to become duke, marquis, count, or baron by the payment of relatively small sums of mon -y into the national treasury. There are any number of English and other foreign merchants engaged in Portuguese trade who have acquired high-sounding titles in this mauler. In'ltaly, too, any title can be obtained by the payment of money. There is a regular fixed tariff, the cash paid being described as “registration dues. ” Thus everybody who does not happen' to be a notorious criminal can buy an hereditary title of count either from the Pope or from King Humbert for the sum of £I,OOO.