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Excerpt from Searching the Records: Begins With the General Assembly of 1828-9, at Vandalia, Illinois, That Year Macoupin County Got Government Life; From This Time to the End of the Year 1869 the Records Have Been Searched for the Truth of This Book; This Covers the Construction of the Thr
If this method had been known in Macoupin county years ago, they could have saved themselves from tons of taxation, and compelled the court house bondholders to take the build ing for their pay. Were this method pursued foreign lenders of money, at ten per cent. Semi-annually, when they pay no taxes, as was the case on the new court house, would beware, before they parted with their money. This method of mine would save millions to the people who are illegally taxed in this country or any other, where equity jurisprudence is ad ministered.
The world of wrong is not yet dead. Public buildings and court houses will yet be built on borrowed capital, under illegal action of the authorities. When and where this is done, this book points out the remedy, by which the people so taxed can escape paying them. The book points out safety to the lender, who must first know the legal powers of the officers who contract with them for money to erect public buildings. Let justice be done on both sides. Yes, Let jus tice be done, though the heavens should fall.
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