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438 PREFACE to fair. Galloway's Spore/J. port came over, and was laid before the lloufe, one year's tax had been levied : and the Allembly, confeious that: no injuttiee had been intended to the proprietaries, and willing to 'i‘eé'tit‘y it if any lhould appear ; appointed a ram/latter of members from the leveral counties to examine into the ttate of the proprietaries taxes through the province, and nominated on that committee a gentleman of known attachment to the proprietaries, and their Chief Juflice, Mr. Allen; to the end that the firiéteft inquiry might be madc.--.§llzezr report was as follows: ‘ V‘v'e, the committee appointed to inquire into, and confider the Rate of the proprietary taxation through the feveral counties, and report the fame to the Houfe; have, in purfuanee of the (aid appointment, carefully examined the returns of property, and compared them with the refpeétive aflEtlinents thereon made through the whole provinceg-and find, Fufl, That no part of the ulwtr'uqyod wafte lands belonging to the proprietaries have, in any inftance, been included in the eftatcs taxed. Socomll , That fome of the located uncultivated lands belonging to the proprietaries in feveral counties rrmaz'azmafléfléd; and are not in any county aflhffed higher, than the lands under like circumfiances belonging to the inhabitants. T/airdl , That all lamir, not granted by the pro-prietaries, wit/bin boroug/or and towns, remain untaxea'; excepting in a few inf'tances, and in [P. R] PI'o/tr‘zl'tarzi'r Conduct aoout a La to. 4.39 ‘ The whol ' ‘ e of the proprietary tax of eighteen C pence 111 tne pound, amounts to 566/ 4;. And the film or" the tax on the zulaaozta/ztr rod. for the fame year amounts, through the feveral counties, to 27,103l. 12;. 8d. And it is the opinion of your committee that there has not been any 1n_juftice done to the proprietaries, or attempts made to rate or aflets any part of their ell-ates higher than the eftates of the like kind belonrrin to the inhabitants are rated and allellEd;:bL1t on the contrary, we find that their eitates are rated, in many infiances, below others. ‘ T/oomar Lore/J, George Aflo/Jrz'afgo, ‘ yofop/o Fox, Ema/'zuel Carpenter, ‘ Samuel R/Joaa'r, yo/m Blackoum, ‘ Aura/Jam Chapman, l/l/i/liam Allen.' The houfe communicated this report to governor Hamilton, when he afterwards prelTed them to make the ltipulated act of amendment; acquainting him at the fame time, that as in the execution of the 210: no injuftice load hitherto been done to the proprietary, fo, by a yearly infpec- tion of the affeflinents, they would take care that none/boula' be done him; for that if any fhould appear, or the governor could at any time point out to them any that had been done, they would immediately rectify it; and therefore, as the a8: was {hortly to expire, they did not think the amendments neceflary.-Thus that matter ended during t/Jat adminifiration. thofe they are rated as low, as the lands which are granted in the {aid boroughs and toyiitlls. ‘ ie And had his fuccelfor, Governor Pena, per- mitted it Hill to fleep; we are of opinion it had 7x. on: 1 , w".* ‘ummmum-minimums u. in."- , .. i |
