Christian Science by Mark Twain, is part of the HackerNoon Books Series. You can jump to any chapter in this book here. THE BY-LAWS
So far as I can see, they could not do it if they wanted to. The By-laws are merely the voice of the master issuing commands to the servants. There is nothing and nobody for the servants to re-utter them to.
That useless edict is repeated in the little book, a few pages farther on. There are several other repetitions of prohibitions in the book that could be spared-they only take up room for nothing.
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