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8294. TAXATION, French.—[continued].

The right of taxation
includes the idea of * * * equalizing the
taxes on the clergy and nobility as well as
the commons. The two former orders do not
pay one-third of the proportion ad valorem, which the last pay.—
To Dr. Currie. Washington ed. ii, 544.
(P. 1788)


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