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2781. EXCISE LAW, Enactment.—

It is proposed to provide additional funds, to
meet the additional debt [created by the
Assumption], by a tax on spirituous liquors,
foreign and home-made, so that the whole
interest will be paid by taxes on consumption.—
To Gouverneur Morris. Washington ed. v, 198. Ford ed., v, 250.
(Pa., Nov. 1790)