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Much of what the taxcollector leaves goes into War Bonds, the sales of which continue to be amazing.
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The money thus collected shall be paid to the chief taxcollector of the state, and the estimates, statements or bills aforesaid, shall be arranged by the assessor, and general lists shall be made from them in the same manner and for the same purposes designated by section thirteen of the assessment act.
Laws of Congress in Regard to Taxes, Currency and Conscription, Passed February 1864. Confederate States of America 1864
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Charles after dinner, seeing her gloomy, proposed, by way of distraction, to take her to the chemist's, and the first person she caught sight of in the shop was the taxcollector again.
Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850
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Charles after dinner, seeing her gloomy, proposed, by way of distraction, to take her to the chemist’s, and the first person she caught sight of in the shop was the taxcollector again.
Madame Bovary 2003
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