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mediate end of the affair, without which we were threatened with 

 greater costs, and the inutilisation and perhaps the ruin of the debated 

 collections. 



The sentence was therefore accepted and orders for its fuU exe- 

 cution were passed, thus putting an end and, as it seems to us, a fa- 

 vourable one, to this three years old debate, which would still continue 

 and perhaps with an unfavourable final result, had it not been conduc- 

 ted by a minister who was well aware of its nature and able to disen- 

 gage it from the labyrinth in which badly understood interests and ju- 

 dicial manoeuvres had entangled it. 



DR. B. A. GOMES 



