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8345. TAXES, Land.—[further continued] .

The land tax is now on
the carpet to raise two millions of dollars;
yet I think they must at least double it, as the
expenses of the provisional army were not
provided for in it, and will require of itself
four millions a year.—
To James Monroe. Washington ed. iv, 242. Ford ed., vii, 156.
(Pa., May. 1798)