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He would be a capital fellow to join in on such an absurdly foolish scheme as you are just about to pull off at the Y.M.C.A. now. Going into somebody else's property and absorbing its benefits to yourselves. That's his scheme exactly. He watches my mining claims like a hawk, and if my assessments should be a day late he'd jump my claims. He hates me."
The same mutinous spirit which prevailed in the house of commons had diffused itself over the nation; and the commissioners appointed for making the assessments had connived at all frauds which might diminish the supply, and reduce the crown to still greater necessities.
When he left there for West Point the August following he had refused four times what he paid for his shares, and saw fortune smiling on his pathway to the Hudson. Now, less than ten months thereafter, on the borders of the Hudson, he saw ruin staring him in the face. For there had been assessments, and he had borrowed to meet them. There had come rumors of "leaks" and he had kept them to himself.
Furthermore, a "rate" might consist in a fixed sum, the same for all, and levied by polls or by households, say 1d. or 2d. each. Or, again, it might be levied by pews at varying sums. Assessments to pay the parish clerk or sexton might sometimes be made in kind, and issue from households, from cottages, or from ploughlands: so much corn at Easter, so much bread, so many eggs.
Through their control of many jobs, and through their influence with banks, they could show a wide assortment of favors to the politician in return for his influence; for instance, in the matter of traffic regulations, permission to tear up the streets, inspection laws, rate schedules, tax assessments, coroners' reports, or juries.
A friend of Douglas' of Professor Harrison's, I should say called our attention to it. This friend wants to go in on it, but he can't leave his business; so the idea is to have just Fred and the professor and you, if you'll go and me to go and attend to the assessments.
Oswald Carey," he said, "and I shall see that you are restored to your position, only you must not be so obstinate about your assessments in the future, as there is no Legitimate party now, thanks to your beautiful wife." "Thanks to my beautiful wife! What do you mean, sir?" blurted Carey, staggering over toward the President and resting upon his two hands on the desk.
Later in life, the assessments are heavier in progress, as in life insurance, but that matters not to that mighty self-confidence that will not grow old while knowledge can keep it young. Socrates, when his hair whitened with the snow of age, learned to play on instruments of music.
Sellers, recently when my clerk comes he will show copies letters informing you of the ten per cent. assessment." "Oh, certainly, we got those letters. But what we wanted was money to carry on the work money to pay the men." "Certainly, certainly true enough but we credited you both for a large part of your assessments I am sure that was in our letters." "Of course that was in I remember that."
The only way that I can figure it out is that Williams got some inkling of the prospects of the tunnel from some of Bill's papers or letters. It wasn't two weeks after Bill died till that old skinflint went tramping up there and staked that placer claim. He's worked assessments on it every year since.
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