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" I must confess, very provoking to see the officers draw the goods from the public store, to traffic in them for their own private gain, which goods were sent out for the advantage of the settlers, who were compelled to deal with those huxter officers,... "
Memoirs of Joseph Holt: General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798 - Page 296
by Joseph Holt - 1838
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Memoirs of Joseph Holt: General of the Irish Rebels, in 1798, Volume 2

Joseph Holt - Ireland - 1838 - 454 pages
...and his wife and children should be the companions of his days in exile." 294 CHANGE OF SYSTEM. 1806. the Duke of York, instructions concerning the officers...CORPS. 297 makers, man-milliners, tobacconists, and ped- 1806. lars, that were called captains and lieutenants, made their fortunes ; by the extortion...
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The History of Australian Discovery and Colonisation, Part 1

Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...hundred per cent, profit, and paying in grain. " It thus would happen, that one of these monopolisers, who never grew a grain, would sometimes have a thousand...wheat to put in the store ; and this was the manner ia which all those old tailors, and shoemakers, staymnkers, maa-milliners, tobacconists, and pedlars,...
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Convict Life in New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land, Volumes 1-2

Charles White - Australia - 1889 - 710 pages
...hundred per cent. profit, and paying in grain. " It thus would happen, that one of these monopolisers, who never grew a grain, would sometimes have a thousand...manner in which all those old tailors, and shoemakers, staymakers, man-milliners, tobacconists, and pedlars, that were called captains and lieutenants, made...
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Fragments of the Early History of Australia: 1788 to 1812

John McMahon - Australia - 1913 - 466 pages
...for their own private gain to the sittVr at a profit of from 50 to 500 per cent., and th." settler paying in grain. It thus would happen that one of these monopolizers, who never grew a grain, wmild sometimes have 1,000 bushels of wheat to put into the Ciovernnvnt stores. And this was the manner...
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