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but at the same time that we are strongly inclined to relieve Indi-
viduals, we think it incumbent upon us to pay all the regard to
Publick Faith and Consequently to Publick Credit, which these
very important points Deserve and our present Circumstances will
allow
In these respects as well as some other, the Bill herewith returned
with a Negative Appears to us to be Defective, but we are not
without hope of Receiving another upon a plan more consistent
and less liable to objections and have therefore taken the Liberty
of recommending to your Consideration a Tax long experienced in
this Province and more equal and less grevious to the People than a
Land Tax, together with the Appropriation and Continuance of the
Funds mentioned in the Bill to have answered or almost Answered
the ends for which they were created, the annual produce whereof
in future may be nearly estimated on a review of the annual Income
they have hitherto Produced, and as we are informed that the
Deficiency which by the Law as it now stands is to be made Good
by a Land Tax only, has been calculated at about £26,000 we
Conceive this sum may be Discharged by these means in two years
from this Time, without any considerable Inconvenience or just
Cause of Complaint
The Publick Faith and Credit must be preserved at all Events and
shoud you therefore not be inclined to fall upon some method for
the ease of the Landed Interest, less Exceptionable than those
proposed by the Bill we have rejected rather than expose these to any
hazard, we shall be Obliged to Suffer the unequal Burthen on Land
imposed by the Original Bill, to Take place
Signed p order J Ross Cl Up Ho
Adjourned till To morrow Morning at 10, of the Clock
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U. H. J.
Liber No. 35
April 7
p. 431
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