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Show g6 g ACTS RELATING Part I. lays to you, the proprietor, take this thing, ufe it, enjoy it. It is the law, which fays Scot. Ill. TO THE Commas. 57 Tythes, for inftanee, is a tax, anda very heavy, and perhaps an impolitic one to every other man, do not take it, do not too. ufe it, do not enjoy it. Take away the fence which the law has fet around this thing, this good, whatever the payment of this tax we do not give it be, and where would your right or property be then? If this be a true definition of the term property, and to my underflanding it appears [0, what does this boaftcd maxim come to at lafi? Or how will you apply it to the point in queflion? It comes out after all, that the payment of a tax is not the giving up (my part of our own property; itis the aflignment only of a cer- tain portion of the common flock to the {npport and maintenance of government. That this idea of a tax has not been fuf- fi‘ciently attended to, arifes perhaps from taxes being generally paid in 60/72, and not in kind. Where the tax is paid in kind it will appear lefs revolting. Tythes, Yet it appears at firfi fight that in up any part of our property. The mean-« efi farmer will underftand you, when you tell him, that nine {heavcs belong-to (are the property of) himfelf, and the" tenth belongs to (is the property of} the parfon. P Let the fame farmer compound for his tythes, and he will foon lofe fight of this idea, he will foon begin to complain that he givesa part of his property to the par~ fon. Yet clearly the money paid in lieu of the tenth fl‘tCZlf is the purchafe money for the tenth flicaf. The law has laid to the farmer, nine lheaves are yours: the fame law has faid to the parfon, the tenth is yours. The law has {aid to the parfon, meddle not with the nine iheaves: the fame law has {aid to the farmer, meddle not with the tenth. ls not the fame reafoning applicable to 6 taxes |