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(1907) [MARC] Author: Thomas Alfred Fischer
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remain with that town for all time as long as the
Magistrates should pay the annual interest of 6 per cent.,
and that the capital, if the male line became extinct, should
devolve upon the town of Stettin. Though this gift
should have rendered the Magistrates the more willing to
pay the interest promptly and justly, there have constantly
arisen difficulties concerning this matter, so that my late
father forty years ago was compelled to sue for security,
which he received, and was protected during the whole
time of his life.

“Now, although I have tried to get what is due to me
with all forbearance, still I have laboured in vain, with
ever less hope, since the said Magistrates not only wish
to reduce the annual interest to five per cent., but have also
made my attorney frequently and for the most part in vain
appear before them with his requests. But as my duty
requires me to adhere firmly to the terms of the legacy, as
well as to leave it intact to my heirs, lest I should be
accused of negligence, and since moreover my sons have
attained the age when they need the means left to them
by their forefathers in order to continue their military
education or their other well-commenced studies in foreign
lands, and to make themselves more perfect and ready
in languages and exercises for the services of Y. M.,
I most humbly petition Your R. M. to enjoin the
Magistrates of Alt-Stettin to grant me, as to my late
father, a certain mortgage, so that I may draw out of it
what is due to me without molestation, and use it for
the benefit of my family.

“ Finally, I beg to thank Y. M. with all due humility for
having graciously granted to me the same stipend as to
my predecessors ; but I cannot conceal that I received
only two-thirds of it during the years 1667 and 1668, and
that one part of it—as also was the case in 1669—con-

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