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ask if Execution would not have been issued against the [illegible] for the tax as well as cost? The attempt to cast this responsibility upon "the new set of Trustees," as being opposed to the collection of said tax - and the allegation that it was through their neglect - of duty that "the District will not be able to prosecute [illegible] Bond (pray, what had the District to do with a [illegible] Bond!) is as unjust and ridiculous as it is false and malicious! It is a fact too well known in the district to be denied, that when said new Trustees (of which one of the undersigned was one) were elected, they demanded of their immediate predecessors (who are among the Petitioners) all the records and papers belonging to the District - yet said new Trustees never could obtain from them either the warrant, which the collector had returned to them but partially executed, or the collector's Bond by which to enforce its payment. Neither did the Records of the district show that any such warrant had ever been issued, or the apportionment of any such collector!! The undersigned respectfully ask, then, wheter it be just to charge such delinquency upon the "new Trustees", when by such misconduct of their predecessors they were thus left utterly without any proper knowledge of the previous proceedings, and of course, without power and without remedy! - True, the new Trustees offered to attempt its collection if they were put in possession of the Collectors bond, as they know of no other way - But the Bond have been given