Interresting quirk in cal? (1752)

Mark Biggar markb at sdcrdcf.UUCP
Thu May 8 02:34:14 AEST 1986


First off it's 11 days not 12.  The reason they had the "give us back our
11 days" riots, was that landlords were trying to charge a full months rent
instead of pro-rating it.  It took an Act of Parliament to get the
landlords to only charge for 2/3 of a month.

Mark Biggar
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