NOV. SESS.
1785. |
APPENDIX.
be the same in both states; and that it is proper for the legislatures
of the said states, at their annual meeting in the autumn, to appoint.
commissioners to meet and communicate the regulations of
commerce and duties proposed by each state, and to confer on
such subjects as may concern the commercial interests of both
states, and within the power of the respective states; and that the
number of the said commissioners should be equal, not less
that three, nor more than five, from each state; and that they
should annually meet in the third week of September, if required
by the legislature of either state, or the commissioners thereof, at
such place as they should appoint.
RESOLVED, That it is the opinion of this house, that
the third,
fourth, fifth, and six resolutions, should be communicated to the
legislatures of Delaware and Pennsylvania, and that they be requested
to nominate commissioners for the purpose expressed in the
sixth resolution, and that his excellency the governor be requested
to transmit immediately copies of the said resolutions to those
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No allowance to be
made to collectors
for certain taxes. |
NOVEMBER SESSION, 1786.
No. 1.
RESOLVED, That no allowance be made to any collector
for certificates
suggested to be received before the sixth day of December,
seventeen hundred and eighty-six, for the taxes imposed at November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-three, and November
session, seventeen hundred and eighty-four, and which became payable
in seventeen hundred and eighty-four, and seventeen hundred
and eighty-five, before the collector shall make oath, to be administered
by either of the treasurers, that the certificates offered to be
paid was, before the sixth day of December aforesaid, bona fide received
from, or discounted with, the persons liable to pay the said
taxes in the respective years in which such taxes were payable;
and that such certificates were not directly or indirectly furnished
to or for the parties, or to or for any of them, by such collector, or
by any other person for him; and that no collector shall have a
credit for any certificates suggested to be received after the said
sixth day of December aforesaid, for the taxes aforesaid, unless he
shall return two lists of all the certificates, for which he shall request
a credit, with their numbers, dates and sums, and the names
of the persons from whom received, and make oath, to be administered
by either of the treasurers, to be endorsed on said list, that
the certificates mentioned in such list, and requested to be allowed
such collector, were, since the said sixth day of December aforesaid,
actually, really and truly, and without any deceit or fraud, received
in payment of the assessment due on the property in his county in
the years aforesaid, and from the person named in such list, except
only change, if any given on the receipt of the said certificates,
in which case he gave certificates in change as far as in his power,
and money only for the balance; and that such certificates were
not directly or indirectly furnished to or for the parties, or to or
for any of them, by such collector, or by any other person for him. |
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