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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: application, to furnish him with the accounts which were due. He
added that if this omission continued he should be obliged to
prosecute them, as the law directs, before the proper tribunals.]
[Footnote k: Thus the district-attorney is directed to recover
all fines below the sum of fifty dollars, unless such a right has
been specially awarded to another magistrate. - Revised Statutes,
vol. i. p. 383.]
[Footnote l: Several traces of centralization may be discovered
in Massachusetts; for instance, the committees of the
town-schools are directed to make an annual report to the
Secretary of State. See Laws of Massachusetts, vol. i. p. 367.]
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