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an account of the nett produce of all the taxes, from 1774 to 1782, that a judgment might be formed whether, among other cauſes of diminution, the old taxes might have been aſſeſſed by thoſe im poſed within the period; which they printed in their Appendix, "imagining it might be ſatiſfactory to the Houſe; "from which account no man living could form the remoteſt judgment on the ſubject, without taking indefatigable pains, and then not without official aſſiſtance for the purpoſe ſtated; as different heads of one revenue were ſo blended with thoſe of others, as to render it difficult to diſtinguiſh to which each head belonged. But, what is ſtill more remarkable, the amount of all the duties in the ſeveral years was not ſummed up, ſo as even to ſhew what the produce of the whole revenue was in any one year. If that ſimple operation had been performed, it would have been diſcovered that, at the cloſe of that war, the income of the country was only 1,755,000l. a-year higher than at its commencement, although the addition to the charge upon it was 4,864,000l. on which the committee did not make the ſlighteſt
