The privileges of the headmen are great; themselves, their wives, and their first-born children, are exempted from paying tribute to the crown, an exoneration which is owing to their being collectors of the royal revenues.
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However, the matter was settled by his exoneration from all blame in the matter, and the return of the "Marianna" to Portugal.
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And Conwell likes to remember that thereafter the young man lived up to the pride of exoneration; and, though Conwell does not say it or think it, one knows that it was the Conwell influence that inspired to honesty-for always he is an inspirer.
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