LAW AGAINST BACHELORS.
A strin gent law againsi bachelors has recently been promulgated in one of the States forming the Argentine Republic. A man is marriageable in Argentina when he is twenty. If, from that date, and till he passes his thirtieth birthday, he wishes to remain single, he must pay £1 a month to the State. For the next five years the tax increases 100 per cent. Between thirty - five and fifty the bachelor is mulcted to the tune of £4 a month. From his fiftieth year to seventy-five £6 a month is the tax ; but, having reached the seventyfifth 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 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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Feilding Star, Volume XXIV, Issue 143, 16 December 1902, Page 4
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