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1To Alexander Hamilton from William Lowder for the Board of Assessors of the Town of Boston, 14 July 1791 (Hamilton Papers)
The assessors of the town of Boston are now apportioning a large tax on the inhabitants. Their duty obliges them to take every measure in order to ascertain the quantum of taxable property each citizen holds, that the assessment may be just, and the burthen equal. They have already ascertained the full amount of the property in trade, in such a manner as can scarcely fail of being right, by...