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"because I did not venture
to say that the offer of upwards of
300,000 dollars was made by a bidder "
to que ofe
of a
As I have no other conception
a man who "bido" than
makes an offer
makrés
ww
mon
of
offer than
as one
man,
whio
who
as one who "bido",
I confefs such a distinction without a difference, us laid down
seems to
thad
me
by the Memorialists,
punerite und unmeaning. I
quoted for their information a
statement advanced
in a despatch from Buckingham to
the Duke of ... 18,
st.
to the effect that more than $300,000,
last $365,000 had been actually offered
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the Annual License Fee. Whether
it was
a bid or an
"offer" seems quite
to of State No 439 30th January
1868
immaterial. I could as easily have
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accepted it, and obtained the advance caution money from the parties offering it, as if they had bid, and I have no reason to regard such offer as less "bona fide" than that, which was
whilst there
was no
mode in which
made
M.
that
accepteds
difference in the
any of the offers viz by written tender.
vere
The Memorialists, however, insinuate
after all a lower bid with "good security" might be equivalent to the highest. That is precisely one of the
many exceptions which can be
easily predicated of all such transactions, and yet admits of no refutation. I confefs it to be easier to ensure fundival