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venue under the superintendence and control of the House of
Assembly. On the other hand, the Governor, the Members
of the Executive Council, and the Judges should be inde-
pendent of the annual votes of the House of Assembly for
their respective salaries. That the Committee were fully
aware of the objections in principle which may be fairly raised
against the practice of voting permanent salaries to Judges
who are removable at the pleasure of the Crown ; but, being
convinced that it would be inexpedient that the Crown should'
be deprived of that power of removal, and having well con-
sidered the public inconvenience which might result from their
being left in dependence upon annual votes of the Assembly,
they have decided to make the recommendation in this instance
of a permanent vote of salary ; that, although the grant of
permanent salaries has been recommended to a much greater
number of persons connected with the Executive Government
than they have included in their recommendation, they have
no hesitation in expressing their opinion that it was unneces-
sary to include so large a number ; and if the officers above
enumerated are placed on the footing recommended, they are
of opinion that all the revenues of the province (except terri-
torial and hereditary revenues) should be placed under the
control and-direction of the Legislative Assembly : that the
committee could not close their observa:ions on this branch of
their inquiry without calling the attention of the house to the
important circumstance, that in the progress of these disputes
the local Government has thought it neesssary, through a long
series of years, to have recourse to a measure (which nothing
but the most extreme necessity could justify), of annually ap-
propriating, by its own authority, large sums of the money of
the province, amounting to no less than 140,0001., without
the consent of the representatives of the people, under whose.
control the appropriation of these monies is placed by the
Constitution.
" The Committee cannot but express their deep regret
thet such a state of things should have been allowed to exist
for so many years in a British colony, without any commu-
nication or reference having been made to Parliament oil
the subject."
Thus did the British Parliament pronounce the whole Ad-
ministration of Canada, for a period of several years, to
have been an infraction of the constitutional rights of the Ca-
nadians, and a contravention of the principles of the British
Constitution.
Extract of the Minutes of Evidence given Lefore tie Select
• Committee of the House of Commons, 1834.
Lord Dalhousie was succeeded as Governor-General of Ca-
nada by Sir James Kempt.
Sir George Murray in a despatch to Sir James Kempt,
dated October 8, 1829, says—" Without the authority of Par-
iiament, it would not be in the power of his Majesty to.adopt
those measures fern which alone a permanent adjustmelit of
cite questions in dispute can be anticipated.
" There is, I fear, no adluate reason to expect that, in
their approaching session, the House of Assembly of Lower
Canada will recede front the pretensions which they advanced
successrully in the session of 18264
Extracts of a Despatch from Lord Goderich to Lord Aylmer,
dated Dee. 24, 1830.
" It appears to me, they, for,, as it appeared to my prede-
cessor, Sir George Murray, to he indispensably necessary
that an immediate and amicable adjustment of the question
should be brought about ; aid his Majesty's Government is
decidedly of opinion that any attempt at such an adjustment
would be ineffectual which did not involve the entire assign-
ment of the revenue raissd ur,d, r the Acts in question to the
disposal of the Provincial Legislature, under a conviction that
they will assent to such a reasonable grant of a civil list as
may be necessary for insuring at all eveuts the independence
of the Governor and of the judges."
" The instruction, therefore, svlrch I am now commanded
by his Maje-ty to convey to you is, that you should, at the
earliest convenient period meke a communication to the.
Legislature to the following effect :
" That his Majesty, taking into consideration the best
mode of contributing to the prosperity and contentment of
his faithful subjects of the province of Lower Canada, places
at the disposal of the Legislature all his Majesty's inter, st
in those taxes which are now levied in the province
by virtue of different Acts of the British Parliament,
and which are appropri..ted by the Treasury, under his
Majesty's commands, together with all fines and forfeitures le-
vied under the authority of such Acts. That hi; Majesty, re-
lying on the liberality arid justice of the Legislature of Lower
Canada, invites them to consider the propriety of making some
settled provision for such portion of the expenses of the civil
government of the province as may, upon examination, appear
to require an arrangement of a more permanent nature than
those supplies which it belongs to the Legislature to determine
by annual votes."
Extract of a despatch from Viscount Goderich to Lord A vlmer,
dated " Downing-street, December, 24, 1830." (Marked
" separate.")
" My Lord,--Having in my despatch No. 11, of this date,
conveyed to you his Majesty's cc nmands upon the subject of
the Civil List of Lower Canada, I now proceed to state to
you the views of His Majesty's Government respecting those
brancli s of the revenue which it is deemed expedient to ex-
empt from the operation of that arrangement—l mean the
casual and territorial revenue. If the funds derived from these
sources operated in any degree as a tax upon the people, or
tended either in their nature or in the mode of ther col-
lection to impede or impair the prosperity of the province, I
should have hesitaecd in proposing to re!ain them at the dis-
posal of the Crown. They stand, however, upon a perfectly
dill', rent ground from taxes properly so called ; they are en-
joyed by the Crown by virtue of the Royal prerogative; and
are neitln r more nor less than the proceeds of land. d pre-
petty, which, legally and sonsti!utionally, belong to the
Sove:eign upon the Throne ; and as long as they are applied,
not to undue purpeses of mere patronage, but to objects vv hich
ase closely connected with the public interes's of the province,
is is not easy to c.inceive upon what grounds of abstract pre-
priety, or of constitutional jealousy, the aeplic.tion of them
according to hie Majesty's commands, under respons:ble
v'ce, can be impugned.

" ifcc.)rdind to the accounts transmitted to this country
from Lower Canada, it appears that the casual and terr;torial
revenue was composed of thefollowing items in the year 1829:
" Gros Revenue of.L-su:ts' Estites
" Rent of ill, King:* Post 1,200
" Forges of St. Maurice
" Rent of King's-Wharf
" Droit de Qutnt
" Loth et Ventes
" Land Fund l,BOO
" Timber Fund 1,150

" Total £11.231
" From this sum should be d ducted the revenue of the Je-
suits' estates, which, being regularly applied to the purpose'
of education, cannot properly be diverted from that object. I
must, however remark, that the expense of collecting it (be-
tween 500/ and 6001 ) hears a large proportion to the total
amount of the revenue received • and that it ought to be re-
duced within the smallest pos:iblc compass at as early a period
as practicable.

The remaindi r, then, of the casual and territorial reve-
nue m:,37 be estimated at rather more than 9,0001. ; and if
from this item there be deducted the expense of collection
and management, amounting probably to 1,5001., or there-
abiuts, there will be at the disposal of the Government the
sum of about 7,5001., more or I,ss, liable to some increase,
would hope, from the double oiTration of diminished expense
in the collection, and increased receipts from some of the items.
" The first item to which it will obviously be proper to
apply this fond, will be that portion of the provision for the
clergy of the Established Church which has hitherto been paid
either out of the army extraurdinaries, or the funds of the
Commissary. General."
I the minutes of evidence before the Committee allusion is
made to a " private" dcsratch from the Earl Qf Ripon to
Lord Aylmer, which was read in Committee, hot which is not
inserted in the published evidence.
Extract from the First Report of the Special Committee of
the House ~if twerTibly, to whom wls referred tlt ,Message
of the Governor of the 14th Pe.hFuavy,
" The Message of the 25,11 ultimo expursly reserves for the
exclusive disposal of the Crowe, virtue of the Royal pre-
rogative,' for ollects tlonnpetod with tho public inte-
rests of the province,' the following sources of revenue :
" 1. Rents of Jesuits' Estates.
" 2. Relit of the King's Posts.
" 3, Forges or St. Maurice.

" 4. Rent of King's Wharf.
" 5. Droit de Quint.
" 6. Lode et Ventes.
" 7. Lard Fund.
" 8. Timber Fund.
" The gross annual amount of this revenue, on an average
of the last two years, according to a return commencing in
1818, laid before the House upon address of the 25th ult.,.
is 11,2031. 12s. currency.
" Your Committee have to observe, that according to a
message of his Excellency Lord-Dorchester, then Govenor-
in-Chief, dated the 29th of April, 1794, when the first ac-
counts and estimates of the provincial revenues and expendi-
ture were submitted to this House, the whole of the casual and
territorial revenue then arising within the province was ex-
pressly stated to have c been most graciously ordered by his
Majesty to be applied towards defraying the civil expenses of
the province' (see Appendix), and that the whole of that re-
venue, excepting the land fund' and timber fund,' not then
in existence, and the Jesuits' estates, has since been contained
in the accounts of the public revenue of the province laid be-
fo
the expenses of Government, as sanceiened by the annual
votes of the House, and formed part of the amount of the ap-
propriation for these expenses, passed by his Majesty in pro-
vincial Parliament at the two last Sessions, and also in the
Session of 1825.
" It appears to your Committee, that the whole of the reve-
nue referred to in the message and statements before-men-
tioned, which has not already in point of fact been at the
disposal of the Legislature, and included in the two last acts
of supply, end in that of 1825, consists in the said timber and
land funds and Jei-uits' estates, the three amounting on an
average of the last two years, to 5 51e/. Os. 9d. currency per
annum.; and they are now for the first time expressly reserved
front the control of the Legislature, while monies arising
from the British Acts of the 6th of George 11., C. 14, the
4th of George 111., c. 15, and the 6th of George 111. C.
52, nmountiug according to a statement laid before the
House on the 31st of January, 1829, to 1,8181. 14s. 3d. cur-
rency per annum,- on ass avenge of the la-t two years in the
red is
iil rent
tbAce statement
of the
British Parliamlevied
ent" are
included in the express termsParliament"arbeynvoitrtaut all mentioned mess turn,
tie
beingas. . of the
maccompansing his Excellency's message of the 23d of Fe-
bruary last. ftehit etiodnifi
" Your Committee regret that it appears by an answer to
another address to his Excellency, also referred to your Com
mittee, that no detailed account can be had, at heist for the
prevent, of the intended application of the revenues of the
Jesuits' estetes, and of the land and timber funds, the only
funds classed under the head of casual and territorial revenue
which, as before mentioned, have not already been applied and
auounted for under Acts of Legislature; and they .cbserve
with sincere grief, and not without some degree of alarm, that
the pledge of his most gracious Mejesty our late revered So-
vereign, George 111 , thst this revenue should be applied
towards defraying the civil expenses of the province,' is
threatened to be- wrested from its true meaning and established,
practice; to be applied hereafter towards the support of exclu-
sive religious esta'eli hments this part of his Majesty's domi-
nitwit, where your Committee humbly conceive rone of pia
the support of religious teachers other then those of his own
subjects ought ie any way to be called upon to contribute to
belief, or be exposed to any relative disadvantage whatsoever
on account of his religion.
" It would be doubly painful for your Committee, under
these circumstances, to find both the casual and territorial
revenue and the revenue of the Act of 1774 augmented as
the latter has been by the rffect of two Acts of Parliament
parsed in 1822, front 13,8791. 15s. 7d, to 33,8641. 9s. 10d.,'
now claimed as at the exclusive disposal of the Executive
Government.
" To set this pretension in a more favourable light, your
Committee annex the following extract from the communica-
tion made to the House by command of his late Majesty,
through the administrator of the Government, dated the 28th
of November, 1828 :
The proceeds of the revenue arising from the Act of the
Imperial Parliament 14th George 111., together with the sum
appropriated by the provincial statute 35th George 111., and
the duties levied under the provincial statutes of 41st George
chap. 13 and 14, may be estimated for the current year
at the sum of 34,700/.
The produce of the casual and territorial revenue of the
Crown, and of fines and forfeitures, may be estimated, for the
same period, at the sum of 3,4004
These see iral sums, melting together the sum of 38,100/.,
constitute the whole estimated revenue arising in this prsvince,
which the law has placel at the disposal of the Crown.
His M jesty has been pleased to direct, that from this
collective revenue of 38,100/., the sa'ary of the officer admi-
nistering the government of the pro-since and the salaries of
the judges, should be defrayed ; but his Majesty being gra-
ciously disposed to mark, in the strongest manner, the confi-
dence which he reposes in the liberality and affection of his
faithful Commoas of this province, has been pleased to com-
mand his Excellency to announce to the Assembly, that no
further appropriation of any of this reventie will be made until
his Excellency shall have been enabled to become acquainted
with their sentiments, as to the most advantageous mode in
which it can be applied to the publie service ; and it will be
gratifying to his Majesty, if the recemmendation made to the
Executive Government of the province on this sule:ect shall
be such as it may be able, with propriety, and with due atten-
tion to the interests and efficiency of his Mejesty's Government,
to adopt."
Ext act of a Despatch from Lord Aylmer t i Lord Godcrieh,
dated Quebec, Apr'l 6, 1831.
‘, Your Lordship will, I hope., permit ms to say, that I
cannot but think many of the cemelsints preferred in the
petition of the House of Assembly ere weil founded, a d-for_.
tunately the remedies for them are e elfin reach of His Ma-
jesty's Government."
" I do not presume to enter upon th it part of the petition
which relates to the regulation of the trade of the'colotly, be-
cause it is connected with questions of general interest, beyond
the sphere of my official duty to oiler an opinion upon. But
I hope your Lordship will pardon me foe taking this opportu-
nity of remarking, that, as a ._tseneral principle, it may be ad-
visable that the people of Caneda should be allowed to legislate
for themselves on subjects purely to al.
" The uncertainty and confusion which unquestionably
prevail, owing to the intern ixture of French and English
laws in this province, call fur a remedy which might, perhaps,
be effectecd by means of a Commissi
composed of competent
perso The complaints of the House of Assembly regardi ,g the
imputed conduct of several of the Judges, as le ing engaged
in and taking part in the political differences of the province,
mightt,
perhaps, be left at the discre:ion of the person at the
headof the Goveinment, who, should he witness any instance
of such conduct, would ofeourse take such steps as the circum-
stances of the eaee might appear to hint to require.
bution The charge of the House of Assembly as to the distri-
of judiciary and executive offices almost exclusively
wamongst a certain class of subjects in this province, is one
relatilceldoi
eedv annad therefore, d in i justttobeonly b
aentdak.ter
nu e,
as cannot iii)nroatc,
,nnotsov be
,
di-
rect the Executive Government in a more equitable course
for the time to come.
" The waist of responsibility complained of in the case of
publicspublic officers would be remedied, I presume, by the est sblish-
f a tribunrl for the trial of impeachments in ceses not
cognizable by the ordinary Courts of Lail',
44 I
am not avvsre that there now exists any just ground of
complaint as to the want of adequate accountability in persons
entrusted with public money ; most certainly such an evil d.d
exist until a late period in this colony, to one instance of which
( I mean that of Mr. Caldwell, late Receiver- General) your
Lordship, I apprehend, is not a stranger.
The deficiencies in that gentleman's public accounts have
long constituted, and do still constitute, one of the most le os
minent heads of complaint of the House of .?\stilibly,
_upon
the ground that i.o eceurity haying been required from him on
reCPiOngies appointment' from the Lords of the Treasury,
they conceive it a hardship that the province should be Made
tp suffer from any want of due prepatelon pn that: oeeesion
they havp accordingly all aloe.; 4,llEoqt:tined, and d; still main-
tain, that the deliciettcies in Mr. Caldwels's public accounts as
Receiver-General ought, in justice and equity, to be made
good out of the Imperial Treasury, and not out cf the revenuss
levied in the province.
" Upon a general view of the public affairs of the Province
•

CHAMBER. OF PEERS —Sera tNc• on lax.. 3.
IMPORTANT DERATE ON THE ADDRESS.
Count Portalis read the following project of address :
" Sire—The Chamber of Peers participates in the satisfaction of your
Majesty at the consoling aspect, of France. Free and tranquil, it is
happy at seeing the public prosperity make new prcoress each day, as
our institutions acquire stability and confidence gains ground After
having accomplished the course of justice with firmness and moderation,
your Majesty has been able to follow the dictates of your heart. A great
:let of clerroncy and pacification has emanated from the 'throne; human
gratitude will remember it. It came opportunely to disarm hatred and
appease resentment. The Chamfer of Peers is shlighted to has e pre-
pared the way for this generous and salutary use of your prerogative."
The address then coneratulates the King on fleeing confidently ap-
pealed to the country in new elections. It congratulates him on the
satisfactory state of relations with foreign powers. The fallowing is the
paragraph relating to Spain :
•` We deplore the sad lot of the Peninsula; and see with regret • a
friendly nation in the bloody convulsions of intestine war. We desire,
Sire, that the faithful execution of the clauses' of the Treaty of Qu...
druple Alliance may answer the expectations of your Majesty, and foci.
litate the success of a cause which has ail our sympathy. Spain, de leered
from the yoke of faction, may then enjoy repose tooter the shadow of the
constitutional throne." • .
The rest of the address does but echo the paragraphs of the Royal
speech.
The discussion being opened,
M. de Dreux Breze ascended the tribune. The Chamber, he said,
was much changed and augmented in its composition, and it was there.
fore mare necessary to re-sta'e the political questions before it. He
would again, as he did last year, ask the Ministry in what course of
policy it a ould lead the Legislature? There was the greatest difference
'in two policies, which prevailed alternately both at home and abroad.
One was friendship to, and alliance with, revolution ; the other was the
same towards monarchies. Before 1830, France, based upon Spain,
was allied with the European monarchies against England. Now it was
Ist, contrary. Since 1830 France bad become isolated, her allies lost,
iher principles shaken. The first thing it did was to knd its aid to the
'revolution of Belgium arid Bologna. Then e7.me. Poland, which we
said should nut perish.. Ancona was seized; and the eastern powers
felt confirmed in their fears. This deprived France of her allies. Prince
Talleyiand, however, conceived a plan of replacing' our " old a:lies
by one new one—England. The . orator then depicted all the
;danger and perniciousness of this alliance. Such an a liance might have
been useful to,the new dyi.asty, but it was fatal to France. This was at '
length felt; and when a 'Minister,. M. Thiers, determined to follow up this alliance in its natural consequences, the. aid of Spanish
anarchy, royalty withdrew its confidence in affright, and the Minister
and the Quadruple Alliance were overthiPwn together, As :o Eag.
I md, it has aasolutely need of influence is Spain for commercial and political purposes. England loses its colonial and other markets every day, and it is in quest of new ones. England is intere;ted in the eosin.
nuation of the civil war in Spain. It hail gatrisotiiat *San "SebaStinn,''
seized Passag s, and has occupied. even Guetaria with Its Marines.
Spann h loans hare been a gulf for French capital, a gain for English
monied men. The orator alluled then to the silo nee of our Queenni
speech with regard to France, and, this at a time when Eitg'and was forming commercial Ascetics with Powers everywhere to the detriment
and exclusion of France. ' He instanced Portugal, Censtantinople,
Eaypt, Holland, &c. The expedition against Constentioa was, however,
some consolation, as it shOwed Francentad not forgot the precedents of
the empire and the restoratipn. • All had rejoiced in it except England
and the English Prose. This was sufficient to prove its advantage. M.
de Die x Breze then turned to the internal policy of the country, and
cormlained that since 1830 the Constitution lead been falsified, liberty
oppressed, the jury nullified, and a systeat of rigour pursued, t::e proof
of the futility of which exists in its having been abandoned An amnesty
was given, conciliation affected, but merely for the purpose of recurring,
as soon as possible, to the old system. The orator then returned to ask
whether the silehce of the Queen of England's sp 2: eh respecting France
was not a sign of coolness ?.-errhether they p rserersd in the Quad.
ruple Alliance ?_whether they perserered in the keeping of Algiers ?a-
whether it would persist in upholding the unconstitutional powers given
to the Court of Peers by the September law.
Count Mole rose to answer. The last speaker had cast a general
censure on the policy of the Government, and should be answered. First
he had asked respecting the silence of the Queen of England's speech,
and whether this did not augur a coolness or cessation of this alliance?
He would answer, that never was the alliance cf France and England
more intimate,' never were the agents of the two countries, whether in
Lisbon or Madrid, more in accordance. As to Passages, England
offered France 'for the latter 'o occupy it. The French Government
refused; it was fortified, and Itch! by the British merely to keep it from
the Carlists. The Minister then attested the friendly relations of France
~
with the States of South America. The lasi sp..alier had complained of
the incertitudes of Governmeat with respect to Algiers. But these in-
certitudes existed merely in the pubic journals, item nitwit the Noble
Duke had taken them. ' Tae expeditions of La Tafna and Constantina
were the consequence of the Policy announced lad year, which was to
make peace, if possible, and if forcedtp it, to • snake courageously war.
As to Tunis, where France avas aaia to have suffered humiliations, it
was quite the contrary. 'The 'naval force 'of France had there upheld
the interest. of the collistry. He then would' reply to an insinuation
with respect to the Royal Fancily having married Protestants. He, the
Minister, was a good Catholic.
The Duke of Orleans rose to answer the insinuation. In a few sen.
testers, warmly pronounced, the Duke d elarel that he was a good
Catholic, that his children should be reared and educated as Ca' holies,
but that he respected all religions.
Count Mole then resumed, •and Spoke of the amnesty as an act not of
weakness, but of strength. It was the commencement of r conciliation
not of reac• ion. The tad speaker had asked mareaves, was there ho-
mogeneity in the cabinet e He was aware that there never was a cabinet
more homo;seneous. The cab:iiet wlss agreed, bee-Ls eit slid not b..leng
to a'rt'y party. T: e present tranquility' and security was the best
triumph and boast of Ministers. . . .
M. de Montalembert entered upon a warm panegyric on the present
4Satioish Cabinet, whica gave brilliant prornises. It-had I (Asses! to sane.
;lion the spoiliativa, of the clergy ; it had punished the assassins and
aanarchista of the army ; in short, the present Ministry was such as to
' emend of the Chamber a stronger approbatimi of the constitution, arid
of- the party which now administered the el'airs of that country. He
Would in•fit time move an arnendineat in 'this sense.
c The-President then read the; addresi. Wheasise came to the part
relative to tbe aa.nesty, . . .
.. , , : .: •
The Due de Broglie rose, and rem irking" that the "words of Costa•
x,o!e, statiag h , (tire amnesty was a goal of a new policy, that of con_
Ciliation, he thought that this was a leffection bn tine policy of preceding
Cabinets. But the paragrapa just read contained an adhesion to the
policy of farmer Cabinets. Would Count Mole naoae to emit this ? The
Due de Broglie then made a panegyric on September laws.
' A serious debate then arose on the wording of the adnress, on this
very point. ,
• M. Villemain—No doubt the triumph of the law preceded, and must
have preceded, the amnesty; • btit he could not do more than admit this
fact. He could not, in assenting to what had been, done for the defence
of public order, assent also to all the measures of past Administrations.
Ihe law, for examp`e, that rendered the vote of the jury secret, that
changed its majority, ,and made one vote sufficient to establish it, was
not in the spirit of our institutians; nor could he consider Cie law giv.
ing diseretionary power to the House of Peers' to try s nd judge misde.
ineanours of the press, by calling them treason, as a useful developen
mr..nt of the Charter. He could not give his assent to laws which, passed
in times of passion and violence, had destroyed the true character of the
Constitution. The most sincere friends of ;subtle order; including the
actual President of the Council, had opposed these laws, not only as
hostile to liberty, but as dangerous to good aiLl'strict government, since
such laws, passed in the impute of passion, are likely to be repealed, and
were repealed, by a counter.anpulae of still wilder passion.
1
The Duke de Broglie said in his opinion; the Seseesnber laws were,:
wise, and ought to be permanent.
AL Cousin said he had not the same opinion of the September laws
as his friend M. Villemain. He had voted for•thern.ant would do so
again. It would be impolitic to abolish them, for this would discourage
those defenders of public order who had pas,ed them. He would not
make use of the laws, indeed ; but lay them as arms Usetbl to keep
by one. The amnesty was the era of a new policy, that of concilia.
don, which dated from the 22d of February, and was co;stinued by
the present Cabinet: He wonl.l advise it to continue in the same path.
H. Barthe, Ministor of the Interior, denied that the amnesty was
of a new policy. It Would be ungrateful thus to condemn,
the beginning
as old and past, a policy which had saved the country.
Count Mole had voted for the September laws, and lie had never.
theless, at a later period approved of the amnesty, becauaa he had
'thought the moment oppertuae for such a measure. %Ver.: Riction again' to
raise its head, Ministers would again be rostra to oppose it; but he trust.
ed that the amnesty would prove is now ers--san era of conciliation.
The amendment of M., d'Arnbevate was then put to the vote and
reject@d; anti the Od peragraph was adopted. On the 4111 raragraph,
m, 4 Montalenahert regretted that the address made ho inetition of
the affair of Ortmenwald, 'or of the demonstrations of pap. French
Government in favour of Belginm He was also delieassa of introducing
some allusion to the violation of tile constßutioa of Cracow. The
Russian Government i 1,,,e ehosved, was not so friendly to France as to
induce her repe.egie,nlt ives to be sparing of such allusions.
a
pe President of the Council centended thin ihq.fnautty ot France
had never been sacrificed to an 1,11111.! C.l.4sit4efaion fur foreign powers.
pc Affic of 9;,41P5+1151444 t'i ltAindA - hint been happily terminated
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