The town-hall was originally built to combine amercantileexchangewith municipal offices, but the merchants preferred to meet in the open street adjoining.
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The result is that everything you buy becomes dearer, for the reason that you have not the commodities to give in the ordinary process ofmercantileexchange.
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Within certain limits, the large bankers undertake mercantile exchanges; they also refine the sycee, or silver, for the receivers of taxes.
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