At an adjourned town meeting, holden at Norwich, in Connecticut, on the 29th day of March, 1779: We, the freemen and other inhabitants of this town, having for a long time conceived the mode of taxation in this state to be unequal, have once and again petitioned the Honorable General Assembly to change the present for a mere equal mode of drawing from their constituents, money to defray the public exigencies
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Norwich (Conn.) ; Selectmen.
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State of Connecticut, in America. To [blank] constable of [blank] and collector of the state tax for said town, for the year 1780, greeting: Whereas the General Assembly of this state, in May, 1780, granted a rate or tax of six pence on the pound
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Connecticut ; Treasury Dept. ; Lawrence, John ; 1719-1802 ; Baldwin, David
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State of New-York: Instructions proposed for the consideration of the inhabitants of Poughkeepsie precinct, and which, if approved of, will be given to their committee, when chosen