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Updated: May 26, 2025
It has been stated that no account of Madagascar government would be complete that did not include a description of their system of "fanompoana," or forced service, which answers very nearly to the old feudal service, and to the system known in Egypt as "corvee." The tax-gatherer is not the ubiquitous person in Madagascar he is generally supposed to have been.
The one burden that galled and irritated the people was the liability to be called upon at any moment to render unrequited service to the government. Receiver of United States Lands at Little Rock, Arkansas. Every man had something that was regarded as "fanompoana." The people of one district might be required to make mats for the government, in another pots, the article required.
Many of the head men made this "fanompoana" system a means of enriching themselves, compelling the subordinates to serve them as well as the government. History does but repeat itself, as there are not wanting instances in our own country where certain heads of department "fanomponed" subordinates for private service. In many ways are recorded the product of the fertile brain of these head men.
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