Timothy Matlack A.L.S., December 3, 1782 : to the Commissioners of the taxes of the county of Berks

Timothy Matlack A.L.S., December 3, 1782 : to the Commissioners of the taxes of the county of Berks

Philadelphia 1782

[4] p. ; 33 cm. (fol.)

MSS L1989.1.362

Concerns "the great deficiencies which appear in the collection of the class tax and the tax for effective supplies."|[T]here is the most undoubted intelligence that the enemy derive their strongerst hopes of success from our remissness in the payment of taxes, and are thereby induced to continue the war, when, otherwise they would before this time have relinquished it in despair."|"[I]t is in vain that we may pretend to carry on the war, or hope for a final establishment of our independence unless we pay the expenses unavoidably attendant in it."|Page [3] is blank.|Page [4] is address leaf

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