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Excerpt from Observations on the Assessment of Tolls as a Public Revenue: To Which Are Added, Calculations on the Probable Amount of Some Other Articles of Taxation, Less Liable to Exception
Idiat'e ?ap to them In various idiflri'é'ts' lime is cartie'd from twenty -five to thirty miles as a ma, nure and m forn'e of thefe the tolls are To numer ous and expenfive, that the tax now meant to be laid on them, would, on this article, amount to greatly more, there IS reafon to believe, than thole ma'yd'magine by whom it is advifed, being much more than any farmer would probably pay: Some, 011 the quantity which they now, make, fire of, would be taxed at Upwards of a hundred pounds Sterling per annum, and many would pay forty, fifty, or fixty pounds.
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