in order to enforce the implementation of his instructions, the elector had resort to harsh measures and threatened negligence, tardiness or damage to the mileposts with disciplinary action in an order of 24 july 1722; and in another edict of 7 september 1724, fines of 20 talers were imposed against every official guilty of missing deadlines and in each individual case of neglect. especially on the roads of central saxony, in the towns of colditz, grimma, oschatz, rochlitz and waldheim, as well as the routes from these towns to leipzig and thence zeitz the gaps were particularly noticeable and were, in a decree of 7 september, subject to public reprimand by the prince elector.