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Excerpt from A Letter to a Freeholder, on the Late Reduction of the Land Tax to One Shilling in the Pound
3 pantieprincipally belonged to him to prepofe the ne~ celi'ary Provifions for the Service ofthe current Year. There was, when he made this Propo fition, a Million to be railed in Aid of the Sup ply voted. This Sum, Sir, was eal'y to be raifed by the ufual Method of laying Two Shillings in the Pound on all the Lands of England; the Land Tax at that Rate being always valued at a Million. And had the Honourahle Feijoa mo ved this Rate of Two Shillings in the Pound, it would have been voted immediately; it would not have drawn on any Debates, nor have end ed in any Divifion. Infiead ofa long Struggle for two Days together; inflead of a very te dions Contefi for many Hours each Day, the whole Sum of One Million Sterling might have been obtained in a Qaarter of an Hoar. But he thought this particular Eafe to himfell'ought never to (land in Competition with the general Eafe of his Countrymen; and was therefore content, with great Chearfulnefs, thus to Fore go his own (luiet and Repofe, that You, th Freeholders of this Kingdom, might {hare that Indulgence, fo jufily due to thole who have for (0 many Years fuflained the grievous Weigh: of a Land Tax.
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