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to keep them through the winter until the next summer. These he calls his "original residents;" they were the nucleus of a colony of thirty-two in the winter of 1896-7 and of fifty-three in the winter of 1897-8. These winter citizens, known as "resi-
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dents, continue the government through the year under the same constitution and laws, but they have become a patriciate, engrossing the offices, the property and profitable contracts, to the exclusion of the greater number of plebs, known as "summer Citizens," who SWarm in during the summer. The winter rcsi- dents elect tin- president who appoints the administi.it i\ c officials, and in the winter of 1896-7 they adopted a new constitution, pro- viding that no citizen could be a senator or representative, who had not been a resident of the Kepuhlie for one month. This, of course, excluded the leaders of the summer eiti/ens during the first half of their Itay, and simv, during this first month, the
