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ee. Mr. Opdyke, senior, after filling the Custom House with relatives (one a Breckinridge rowdy) and followers, demanded the notarial business of that department for his son. Opdyke, junior, was therefore installed as Custom House notary. But the ordinary business of the department did not suffice. The officers and employees were required to go before the notary with a "barren commission" monthly and swear to their account — swear that. "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February, which hath twenty-eight alone; concluding with a payment of a quarter of a dollar each to Notary Opdyke ! Some of the officers rebelled; but if five hundred out of the thousand "walked up to the captain's office and settled," the notary realized $1,500 per annum in that slim way. "Equally groundless is the charge against me of being 'gorged with Government contracts.' This, if true, would not be at all censurable, provided I ob
a "barren" one ? We shall see. Mr. Opdyke, senior, after filling the Custom House with relatives (one a Breckinridge rowdy) and followers, demanded the notarial business of that department for his son. Opdyke, junior, was therefore installed as Custom House notary. But the ordinary business of the department did not suffice. The officers and employees were required to go before the notary with a "barren commission" monthly and swear to their account — swear that. "Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Excepting February, which hath twenty-eight alone; concluding with a payment of a quarter of a dollar each to Notary Opdyke ! Some of the officers rebelled; but if five hundred out of the thousand "walked up to the captain's office and settled," the notary realized $1,500 per annum in that slim way. "Equally groundless is the charge against me of being 'gorged with Government contracts.' This, if true, would not be at a
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