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The establishment of local courts and mining boards has been the practical result of experience, obtained in the saddest and most costly way, in which it can ever be purchased by a people.
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The sentence says that local courts and mining boards were created because experience showed they were needed. But this lesson came through great suffering and expense. The phrase “saddest and most costly way” stresses that the people learned through serious losses rather than through easy planning or foresight.
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