American watchman and Delaware advertiser., 1825-12-02

uening TO survive him, delivered the above relation
To the Honorable the Senate and House
of Representatives Of the State Of Del
aware, in General Assembly met:
The Petition Of the Subscribers, Citizens
of .heU Castle County,
RESPECTFULLY SHowETH--
That they are deeply aggrieved by
an Act of the General Assembly of this
State, passed at its last session, entitled
'An Act for the support of government for
the year one thousand eight hundred and
twenty five ;'-that they consider the ap-
portionment directed by said Act as, in the
highest degree, arbitrary, unequal, and un-
I lust. inasmuch as New Castle County has
thereby been burdened with almost mole
ty of the State Tax of the present year 3
that this apportionment is departure from
long established usage ;-that the valua-
ton of the real and personal property Of
the State in 1916, on the aggregate amount
of which the State Tax for 1925 is direct
ed to be apportioned, was made by per-
sons, and under circumstances which have
produced the general sentiment that as to
New Castle County it is false and exagse-
rated ;-that while they are grateful to the
Giver of all good for the fertility of their
soil, and feel an honest pride in the indus
try and enterprise of their fellow-citizens,
which have improved the bounties of ma
ture, they must protest against such exaS-
geration, used as a pretext to Justify the
imposition upon them of an undue share
of the public burden that they consider
this apportionment as violating the princi-
pie that taxes ought to be apportioned ac-
cording to representation, which principle
is great security against arbitrary taxa
ton ;-that they view with ming regret
and astonishment, what has to them the
aspect of a combination between two coun-
ties of the same State to oppress third,
which may, at no distant day, be turned
against themselves that a return to the
good old rule Of apportionment can alone
allay the distrust of our fellow-c citizens Of
Kent and Sussex, which the act aforesaid
has produced in the taxables of this coun-
ty, and prevent it from ripening into feel
ing of bitter hostility, which would lead to
results we shrink from contemplating re-
suits such as history teaches us, in many
a monitory page, governments have expe-
rienccd, when, hardening their hearts
against remonstrance, they have compell-
cd injured communities to redress them
selves ;--that the State Tax of this year
has been, indeed, paid by the aggreved
county, but, the people Of Kent and Sus-
sex who have concluded from this fact, SO
honorable to the taxables of New Castle,
that they approve the aforesaid act, are
eSresiously deceived, for the sense of in
jury from this unequal apportionment is
among them deep seated and universal s.
that they look with confidence to the wis
dom and justice of the constitutional guar
dans of their rights for relief ;--that they
deprecate the use of any but constitutional
means of redress, and have and will dis.
countenance resort to other than those
$ provided by the laws of the land they
: do therefore solemnly demonstrate agains
, the aforesaid apportionment, and agains
; the adoption of it in future, and do pray
S the Honorable the Senate and House o
Representatives that the sum to be raised
/ ! for the support of government for the yea
h one thousand eight hundred and twenty
y six may be eapportioned on the counties o
c this State upon equitable principles