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might be zerjed in satisfaction of the Rates

without

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regard

In fact

to the liability of their~

this course was cretually

pursued in the case

of

some Chinese, but,

matters were set right through the intervention

of the Registrar General

This quite olive, however, that the

Abauant

of

Distress

Can

only be directed

against, and excented

upon,

the

goods and.

Chattels of the defaulting Occupier, and that this Summary Process by affording

the alleged Defaulter no opportunity of

putting forward any ground of Defense

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exemption

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the

improbability of

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any error a default occurring on the part

of the various

officials charged with the curly of applying the Machinary of the