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The Pesador tariff

The Campo dell’Erberia and the portico of the Fabbriche Vecchie: the tariff stone is walled into a pillar at number 132
The Campo dell’Erberia and the portico of the Fabbriche Vecchie: the tariff stone is walled into a pillar at number 132 Photo: Wolfgang Moroder, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0

On that pillar the Serenissima set in stone the price list of the public fruit weigher. The decree is by the Inquisitori alle Tariffe, approved by the Quarantia Criminal in March 1726, and it lays down the prices without appeal: up to sixty lire of weight you pay one soldo, up to two hundred two soldi, above two hundred four.

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