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In 1663 the Sovereign Council enacted an ordinance strictly forbidding the selling or giving of brandy to Indians directly or indirectly, for any reason or pretence whatsoever. The penalty for the offence was a fine of three hundred livres, payable one-third to the informers, one-third to the Hotel-Dieu, and one-third to the public treasury.
But what of the many young girls with whom exceptional conditions did not exist, when they were brought to the examination table? During the year 1873, two women were severely injured by jumping out of their windows to escape the informers. One fractured her leg. The cook of Inspector King testified in the Registrar General's court: "Yesterday I received orders of Mr.
Twenty shillings was the reward paid for information leading to his apprehension as a straggler or a skulker, and it was largely on the strength of such informations, and often under the personal guidance of such detestable informers, that the gang went a-hunting. Apart from greed of gain, the motive most commonly underlying informations was either jealousy or spite.
He no longer doubted, that the plot directed against Adrienne one in which he was the blind agent, in submission to the will of the Order related to interests which had been concealed from him, and which, for that very reason, he burned to discover; for every member of the dark conspiracy to which he belonged had necessarily acquired the odious vices inherent to spies and informers envy, suspicion, and jealous curiosity.
This moderation, added to his justice and generosity, procured him the love of all good men, and the appellation of the Delight of Mankind; which all his actions seemed calculated to insure. Ti'tus took particular care to punish all informers, false witnesses, and promoters of dissension.
Secluded in the private office of his secret police, he orders arrests; he sends out his principal bloodhound, Herman; he first signs and then dispatches the resolution by which it is supposed that there are conspirators among those in confinement and which, authorizing spies or paid informers, is to provide the guillotine with those vast batches which purge and clean prisons out in a trice."
I! I'm neither watch nor repater I scorn both; and between you and I, since you say so, counshillor, that's my chiefest objection to Carver, whom I wouldn't know from Adam, except by reputation. But it's the report of the country, that he has common informers in his pay and favour; now that's mane, and I don't like it. O'Bla. Nor I, Mrs. Rooney.
Instead, a pack of ready informers will swear to anything necessary to hurry him off to life imprisonment." "That is your opinion." "Do you know who sent me here, your Excellency, with the request for your aid?" Livingstone stared his interrogation. "An English officer with whom you are acquainted, friendly to Ledwith for some one else's sake.
But if they make accusation about these as if it concerned me, I will prove that they are all wrong, and that I conducted myself as the best member of the Piraeus party would have done if he remained in the town. 3. I beg you, gentlemen of the jury, not to share the opinions of the informers.
Empson and Dudley being appointed judges found it an easy task to provide informers, who laid before them charges on which a case could be made out for fining the accused. In theory, of course, the King was not responsible, and the guilty judges paid the penalty with their lives early in the following reign.
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