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“The debtor who has
given sureties shall be released from the penalty of imprisonment on payment
to the State of the money, in respect of which he gave such sureties; but if
at the time of the ninth presidency neither he nor his sureties shall have
paid in the money, the man who gave sureties shall be imprisoned and the
property of the sureties shall be confiscated. But in the case of
tax-farmers, their sureties, and their collectors, and of the lessees of
leasable revenues and their sureties, the State may exact payment according
to the established laws. If any man incur debt during the ninth presidency
he shall pay in full during the ninth or the tenth presidency of the next
ensuing year.”
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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