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You have heard
the law, and I beg you to bear in mind this phrase, “if the additional
penalty of imprisonment has been or shall hereafter be inflicted,” and
also that he excepts from the operation of his law tax-farmers and lessees and
their sureties. The law as a whole, but those provisions more especially, is
contrary to all existing statutes. That you will recognize when you have
listened to the actual laws.—Read.
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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