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No. | Author | Recipient | Title | Date | Context |
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1 | Franklin, Benjamin | Collinson, Peter | From Benjamin Franklin to Peter Collinson, 19 December … | 1756-12-19 | approve a tax on lands, including those of the Proprietors’, if the proprietary... |
2 | Washington, George | Cash Accounts, June 1763 | ≈1763-06-01 | By the Sheriff for Taxes on Land Negroes & Car[riage]s. | |
3 | Examination before the Committee of the Whole of the … | 1766-02-13 | ...is not more burthensome in proportion than the tax on lands. It is intended, and supposed to... | ||
4 | Franklin, Benjamin | Marginalia in The True Constitutional Means, an … | ≈1769-01-01 | ...and would he separately tax them moreover with a Tax on Lands equal to what is paid in... | |
5 | Franklin, Benjamin | Comments on Turgot’s Plan for a Single Tax, [after 3 … | ≈1777-07-03 | ...by the former minister, arguing the case for a single tax on land. | |
6 | Jameson, David | Madison, James | To James Madison from David Jameson, [ca. 12 January] … | 1782-01-12 | ...intended it to apply only to the tax on land. According to “An act for ascertaining... |
7 | Jameson, David | Madison, James | To James Madison from David Jameson, 9 March 1782 | 1782-03-09 | ...a portion of the revenue derived from the tax on land and certain “articles” should be used to... |
8 | Randolph, Edmund | Madison, James | To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 22 November 1782 | 1782-11-22 | ...the Louisa County petition. Although the Assembly retained the specie tax on land ( |
9 | Randolph, Edmund | Madison, James | To James Madison from Edmund Randolph, 27 December 1782 | 1782-12-27 | ...on the pound of all sums payable for tax on land and lots, as the same may be... |
10 | House of Delegates | Virginia Delegates | Instructions to Virginia Delegates in re Financial … | 1782-12-28 | ...portions of the expected revenue from the tax on land and tax on slaves should “be... |
11 | Madison, James | Notes on Debates, 28 January 1783 | 1783-01-28 | he was apprehensive that a tax on land according to its quantity not value as had been recomd... | |
12 | Madison, James | Notes on Debates, 29 January 1783 | 1783-01-29 | ...Rutlidge of a latent scheme to fix a tax on land according to its quantity, moved that... | |
13 | Madison, James | Notes on Debates, 7 February 1783 | 1783-02-07 | ...total revenue to be levied by a tax on land among the counties or districts comprising several... | |
14 | Madison, James | Notes on Debates, 18 March 1783 | 1783-03-18 | ...lower Country who consumed the imports, the tax on land wd. affect those who were remote... | |
15 | Pendleton, Edmund | Madison, James | To James Madison from Edmund Pendleton, 26 May 1783 | 1783-05-26 | ...that a part of the proceeds from the tax on land “shall be applied to the use of congress... |
16 | Madison, James | Draft of Bill Providing Funds for a James River Canal … | 1784-12-18 | ...same conditions, as for the other tax on lands within their respective Counties. And the... | |
17 | Hamilton, Alexander | New York Assembly. Remarks on an Act for Raising … | 1787-03-09 | ...that the part of the bill imposing a tax on lands and buildings be rejected. H’s remarks... | |
18 | Hamilton, Alexander | Draft of a Constitution, [17 September 1787] | 1787-09-17 | § 4 Taxes on lands houses and other real estate | |
19 | Hamilton, Alexander | The Federalist No. 35, [5 January 1788] | 1788-01-05 | ...therefore have a common interest to keep the taxes on land as low as possible; and common... | |
20 | Hamilton, Alexander | New York Ratifying Convention. Remarks (John McKesson’s … | 1788-06-27 | Suppose the Genl Govt. to lay a Tax on Land; it will be Supreme— | |
21 | Braxton, Carter | Washington, George | To George Washington from Carter Braxton, 15 April 1789 | 1789-04-15 | ...movements, it would be that the present taxes on Land & Slaves might be discontinued & the... |
22 | Stuart, David | Washington, George | To George Washington from David Stuart, 15 March 1790 | 1790-03-15 | ...impassioned speech opposing a rumored federal tax on land and was equally critical of northern... |
23 | Jefferson, Thomas | Gilmer, George | From Thomas Jefferson to George Gilmer, 25 July 1790 | 1790-07-25 | ...themselves, they could have done it by tax on land and other property, which would thus... |
24 | Hamilton, Alexander | First Draft: First Report on the Further Provision … | 1790-12-13 | ...in the collection, than taxes on land, should seem an argument for preferring the... | |
25 | Final Version: First Report on the Further Provision … | 1790-12-13 | ...greater expence in the collection, than taxes on land, should seem an argument for preferring... | ||
26 | Hamilton, Alexander | Report on the Difficulties in the Execution of the Act … | 1792-03-05 | ...the principle of the objection, to be neither taxes on land nor on the produce of land, nor... | |
27 | Turberville, George Lee | Madison, James | To James Madison from George Lee Turberville, 19 … | 1792-11-19 | ...collecting the Spirit & Still Tax. A direct Tax on Lands wou’d be more fair & infinately More... |
28 | Taylor, Hubbard | Madison, James | To James Madison from Hubbard Taylor, 13 January 1794 | 1794-01-13 | ...made by a discrimination in the tax on Lands its divided into three Classes the first to pay... |
29 | Madison, James | Excise, [16 January] 1795 | 1795-01-16 | ...in this instance. In some states a tax on land, in others a tax on other articles... | |
30 | Ingersoll, Jared | Madison, James | To James Madison from Jared Ingersoll, [24 February] … | 1796-02-24 | ...that among Hamilton’s points was “That Taxes on Land and Labour only are direct.” For Hamilton... |