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4394. LAND, Valuation.—

The Confederation,
in its eighth article, decides that the quota of money to be contributed by the several
States shall be proportioned to the value of
landed property in the State. Experience has
shown it impracticable to come at that value.—
Answers to M. de Meunier. Washington ed. ix, 286. Ford ed., iv, 141.
(P. 1786)