_1561._ _Duke Albrecht V_ appoints the first commission of censorship, putting at its head two Jesuits, Peltanus and Canisius. _1562._ _Duke Albrecht_ orders the destruction of all pernicious and misleading books and pamphlets. The commission is directed to take the responsibility of determining which these are. _1565._ _Duke Albrecht_ issues a general edict directing the prohibition of all heretical writings, and forbidding the sale of theological works in any but Catholic towns.[150] _1566._ _The Ducal Commission of Censorship_ issues an _Index librorum prohibitorum_, and also a general catalogue of books which it is permitted to sell and to read within the duchy. The catalogue is printed in Munich by Adam Berg. The lists are restricted almost entirely to books on religion or theology. It is possibly the first attempt to guide, by official selection and injunction, the religious reading of a people.[151] _1569._ _Duke Albrecht_ orders printed by Adam Berg, for the use of the monasteries of Bavaria, a special edition of the Index of Trent, to which is appended a list, compiled by his commission, of the books which are commended for use in the monastery libraries,--_Index selectissimum auctorum ex quibus integra bibliotheca constitui recte potest_. The volume contains a brief, written by Chancellor Eck, in which the heads of the monasteries are cautioned to purge and to reshape their collections according to the instructions given by the Tridentine Fathers. It is to be noted, however, that the list of works recommended include a number of titles which these same Fathers had condemned and prohibited. Certain further authors approved by the Bavarian censors find place in either Class I or Class II of the later Roman Indexes. In the same year, 1569, Berg prints, under authority of the Duke, an ordinance prescribing the texts that are to be used in the “Latin Schools” of the duchy, and presenting a list of Latin texts the use of which is prohibited. In 1569, the Duke commits to the Jesuits the task of purging the ducal library from pernicious books. In the same year was instituted a general inspection or investigation of conditions throughout the duchy (_allgemeine Landesvisitation_), which continued for two years. The inspectors were enjoined to give special attention to the bookshops as well as to libraries, private as well as public, and to see that all heretical, pernicious, and non-Catholic books were eliminated and the copies destroyed. They were also to take measures to stop the distribution of heretical and godless pamphlets and tracts (_flügschriften_).[152]