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8258. TARIFF, Confederation and.—

Congress, on the 18th of April, 1783, recommended
to the States to invest them with a
power, for twenty-five years, to levy an impost
of five per cent. on all articles imported
from abroad.—
To M. de Meunier. Washington ed. ix, 256. Ford ed., iv, 161.
(P. 1786)