1To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 1 June 1783 (Madison Papers)
...of Government, and to answer pressing Claims made every hour of the day to the amount of hundreds of thousands of pounds but the deficiencies of the Taxes of the last, Year; which, if paid in Commutables, in Hemp particularly, as I expect they will, there will be scarce sufficient raised to pay the bal. of the £80000 ordered at the last Session to be paid to the United States.
...fall due poll and certain excise taxes and license fees, payable in specie or commutables, and the land tax, of which 50 per cent must be discharged in specie, with 40 per cent commutable in deerskins, flour, hemp, or tobacco, and 10 per cent in Virginia or continental bills of credit (
3To James Madison from Jacquelin Ambler, 5 October 1782 (Madison Papers)
. On 1 October 1782 Benjamin Harrison, Jr., had been appointed by the Council of State to sell for cash the commonwealth’s tobacco, hemp, and flour which had been received in payment of taxes (