Most of the payments have been made, but it has caused great anznish of spirit to all concerned, to the recipients who feared they might not get the money after all, or might have to wait longer than agreed; to the magistrates who were put to the most absurd straits in borrowing first from this fund and then from that, in order to be punctual; and to the spectators, who angrily exclaimed: Look at these fellows getting rich off us!" The requirement of a levy of forty, sixty, eighty, or even and hundred cash per mow does not meet with
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