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8344. TAXES, Land.—[further continued].

The federalists talk * * * of a land tax. This will probably not be opposed.
The only question will be, how to
modify it. On this there may be a great diversity
of sentiment. One party will want to
make it a new source of patronage and expense.—
To James Madison. Washington ed. iv, 234. Ford ed., vii, 237.
(Pa., April. 1798)