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Valentine M’Clutchy, The Irish Agent

CHAPTER VI
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This is a great loss to him--a serious loss.

In the first place, it is wretchedly, shamefully deficient in roads--both public and private.

In the next place, there are many rents left unpaid, through the inability of the people, which we could get paid by the making of these roads, and other county arrangements, which the ill-thinking call jobs.

In the third and last place, he has on his property no magistrate friendly to his aforesaid interests, and who would devote himself to them with suitable energy and zeal.

Indeed, with regard to the murmurings and heart-burnings alluded to, I fear that such a magistrate will soon become a matter of necessity.


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