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508-510)--Stourm, ibid., 168-171.

(Speech by Benard-Lagrave to the Five Hundred, Pluviose II, year IV.) "It cannot be concealed that, for many years, people were willingly accustoming themselves to the non-payment of taxes."] [Footnote 3217: Stourm, ibid.,II., 365.

(Speech of Ozanam to the Five Hundred, Pluviose 14, year VII.) "Scandalous traffic....

Most of the (tax) collectors in the republic are heads and managers of banks."-- (Circular of the minister of the finances, Floreal 25 year VII.) "Stock-jobbing of the worst kind to which many collectors give themselves up, using bonds and other public securities received in payment of taxes."-- (Report by Gros-Cassaud Florimond, Sep.19, 1799.) "Among the corruptible and corrupting agents there are only too many public functionaries."-- Mollien, "Memoires," I., 222.

(In 1800, he had just been appointed director of the sinking-fund.) "The commonplace compliment which was everywhere paid to me (and even by statesmen who affected the sternest morality) was as follows--you are very fortunate to have an office in which one may legitimately accumulate the largest fortune in France.