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REASONS, &C.
Employments, they say, have been taxed; the reasons for which taxation will not hold with regard to property, at least till employments become inheritances. The commons always have had so tender a regard to property, that they never would suffer any law to pass, whereby any particular persons might be aggrieved without their own consent.
N. B. Some alterations have been made in the bill about the modus, since the above paper was written: but they are of little moment.
