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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Footnote to History by Robert Louis Stevenson: since then. And the Tamaseseites, with true Samoan ostentation,
offered to increase the salary of their white premier: an offer he
had the wisdom and good feeling to refuse. A European chief of
police received twelve hundred. There were eight head judges, one
to each province, and appeal lay from the district judge to the
provincial, thence to Mulinuu. From all salaries (I gather) a
small monthly guarantee was withheld. The army was to cost from
three to four thousand, Apia (many whites refusing to pay taxes
since the suppression of the municipality) might cost three
thousand more: Sir Becker's high feat of arms coming expensive (it
will be noticed) even in money. The whole outlay was estimated at
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