Sketches in Madrid: the "Octroi" at the entrance to Madrid, 1876. '...the ordinary aspects of life in of collecting the "octroi," or town tolls, at the entrance to the city, which is similar to that observed in many other cities of Continental Europe'. From "Illustrated London News", 1876.

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