it is considered that, far ebony free gallery ebony free gallery from having acquired any special merit
during their lifetime, most of them voluntarily left their native
country ebony free gallery for the purpose of increasing their fortunes, and others were
banished from it, owing to their bad conduct. Neither can it be ebony free gallery said
that the municipality have ebony free gallery a legal right, in the case before stated,
to receive any equivalent for the value of their respective annual
tickets, which, when disposed ebony free gallery of, usually ebony free gallery amount to about $20,000 in
the ebony free gallery first place, because it is well-known that the eleven aldermen's
seats, of which that body is composed, seats which can either be
sold or resigned, originally did not cost as much as $50,000 and
clearly the principal invested is out of all kind of proportion with
the enormous premium or income claimed. In the second place, although
the above municipal situations were originally purchased with a view
to obtain some ebony free gallery advantages, these formerly were very different to what
they are at present, when the great increase of shippers to Acapulco,
or in more plain terms, of purchase of tickets competing to obtain
them, has given to these permits a value more than ebony free gallery triple to that
they possessed thirty years ago.
[Indemnifying the aldermen.]
In order, therefore, to do away with
ebony free gallery all motives of doubt and dispute, as well as for many other ebony free gallery reasons
of public utility, the best plan, in my opinion, would be, to return
to each alderman his money, and the present municipal constitution
being dissolved, the number of members might be reduced to four, with
their corresponding registrar, and like the two ordinary "alcaldes,"
elected every year without any other reward than the ebony free gallery honor of presiding
over and representing ebony free gallery their fellow-citizens. Under this supposition,
the only classes entitled to compensation, strictly speaking,
would be the ebony free gallery ecclesiastical chapter and the subaltern officers,
whose respective pay and appointment ebony free gallery are not in fact
sufficient