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Julien Poydras, who died in 1824, ordered his executors to sell his six plantations with their respective staffs under contracts to secure the manumission of each slave after twenty-five years of service to the purchaser, together with an annual pension of $25 to each of those above sixty years of age; and years afterward a nephew of the testator procured an injunction from the supreme court of the state estopping the sale of some of the slaves by one of their purchasers in such way as would hazard the fulfilment of the purpose.

It is a great pity that just now political conditions are completely estopping wild-life protection in Mexico; but it is true. In Mexico there is little hoofed game to kill, deer of the white-tail groups, seven or eight species; the desert mule deer; the brocket; the prong-horned antelope, the mountain sheep and the peccary.

"But but there is a clause in this deed, Mr. Hooter, estopping colored persons from occupying the Dillihay place." "Precisely. What about it?" Mr. Hooker snapped out his inquiry and looked up suddenly, catching Peter full in the face with his narrow-set eyes. It was the equivalent of a blow. "According to this, I I can't establish a school on it." "You cannot."

"You are in the hands of an infamous harpy, who is using her son's blood to extract money from you. You have already paid a dozen times more than the life of that d d sneak was worth; and more than that the longer you keep on paying you are helping to give color to their claim and estopping your own defense.