West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
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الصفحة 62
The council is composed of ten men , some of whom are , though possessed of estates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are sacred ; there are several other great gentlemen of this description in ...
The council is composed of ten men , some of whom are , though possessed of estates , thousands worse than nothing ; yet they cannot be arrested ; their bodies are sacred ; there are several other great gentlemen of this description in ...
الصفحة 69
1 1 Executors , administrators , and attornies to estates , often accumulate larger fortunes than the heirs or proprietors ; their poor orphans are sadly cheated during their ' minority , their properties involved , abused and reduced ...
1 1 Executors , administrators , and attornies to estates , often accumulate larger fortunes than the heirs or proprietors ; their poor orphans are sadly cheated during their ' minority , their properties involved , abused and reduced ...
الصفحة 70
When a man is appointed'executor , he gets two or three of his own friends to appraise the estate , ( previouslyembezzling every article he possibly can with secrecy ) and takes it at the valuation , and makes no remittance until he is ...
When a man is appointed'executor , he gets two or three of his own friends to appraise the estate , ( previouslyembezzling every article he possibly can with secrecy ) and takes it at the valuation , and makes no remittance until he is ...
الصفحة 71
3 how he passed the time , and cultivated the estate ; whether it was loitered in riotous dissipation , with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he bu deceived by clean intervals ...
3 how he passed the time , and cultivated the estate ; whether it was loitered in riotous dissipation , with the neighbouring managers , or spent induftriously attentive to his duty ; nor should he bu deceived by clean intervals ...
الصفحة 72
It would be vastly better for a planter , when distressed to answer any pressing demands which may be against him , to sell his estate at once , or a part of it , than to put it to nurse ( as I may terin mortgaging ) ; for it will be ...
It would be vastly better for a planter , when distressed to answer any pressing demands which may be against him , to sell his estate at once , or a part of it , than to put it to nurse ( as I may terin mortgaging ) ; for it will be ...
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| العنوان | West India Customs and Manners: Containing Strictures on the Soil, Cultivation, Produce, Trade, Officers, and Inhabitants: with the Method of Establishing, and Conducting a Sugar Plantation. To which is Added, the Practice of Training New Slaves. By J. B. Moreton, Esq. A New Edition |
| المؤلف | J. B. Moreton |
| الناشر | J. Parsons; W. Richardson; H. Gardner; and J. Walter, 1793 |
| أصلي من | المكتبة البريطانية |
| الكتب ذات التنسيق الرقمي | 21 تشرين الأول (أكتوبر) 2013 |
| عدد الصفحات | 192 من الصفحات |
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