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8346. TAXES, Land.—[further continued].

In most of the middle
and southern States some land tax is now
paid into the State treasury, and for this purpose
the lands have been classed and valued,
and the tax assessed according to that valuation.
In these an excise is most odious. In
the eastern States land taxes are odious, excises
less unpopular.—
To Dupont de Nemours. Washington ed. v, 583. Ford ed., ix, 321.
(M. April. 1811)