LAW AGAINST BACHELORS.
A Btringent law against bachelors has recently been promulgated in one of the States forming the Argentine Republic. A man is marriageable in Argentina when he twenty. If, from that date, and till he passes bis thirtieth birthday, he wishec to remain single, he must pay £1 a mouth to the State. For the next five years the tax increases 100 per cent. Between thirty-five and fifty the bachelor is mulcted to tb % e tuDe of £i a month. From his fiftieth year to seventy-five £G a month is the tax ; but, having reached the seventy-fifth year, relief finally comes, and the tax becomes nominal, being reduced to £2 a year. After eighty a man can remain single without paying anything. There is a paragraph relating to widowers, who are given three years in which to mourn and pick a successor. A man who can prove that he has proposed and been refused three times in one year is also considered to have earned immunity from taxation. It is said that the law works like a charm.
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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 296, 16 December 1902, Page 1
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180LAW AGAINST BACHELORS. Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 296, 16 December 1902, Page 1
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