Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1829-11-10

upon tho twenty six trans Allie ghany countless contain
ing tax payers, IL cents. the tax slaves
die counties below the Blue Ridge and above tide wa.
ter average per head) IS CENTS on the people of the
'hrty-six counties and four towns tide water, -
cents; the people OF the fourteen Valley countess
cents; and on the people OF the twenty Ale-
ghany counties, . cents. TSe tax horses aud
rages, assessed on the people Of the twenty
nine middle counties average per head) cent?; on
those OF The tee water country, cents those OF the
Valley country, cents; aul on those 81 the rsn--Al
ieghany country,7 cent? The total Of these direct
taxes assessed on the people OF the twenty nine middle
counies IL ~ cents; those Of the tide water coun
try ot cents; on those Of the Valley country AZ 2
cents and on those of the trans country, 22
LIZ cents. The country East of the Blue Ridge
'ans about 1871 500 ax.payng Inhabitants and the
assessed them. averaged head, stands Husband
tax, 81 cen's7 mills slave tax, &c cents mills; horse
and carriage tax cents mills; total of direct taxes
ga cents mls-and the country West of the Bl,e
Ridge contains about 25s 500 paying
the average head Of taxes assessed on them is 10
cents mills oi land tax; cents OF slave tax cents
mills OF the tax OH horses aud carriages total 80
mill.
The fax assessed on the people of the
district composed OF the counties Of Sussex, Souhainp
ton, Shfry, Isle OF Wight Prince Gorge and Greens.
VILE Gone OF tho least fertile tract, of country in the
southern part Of the Sa,e) is 62 cents average per
mead; the tax assessed the people OF the district
brunswick, Lunenburg, Mecklenbure aud Dnwiddie
ian adjoining district of medium fertility is rs cents
mat assessed on the people Of the district of Halifax
Pit'sylvania and Campbell is IL cents and that assess
ed the people Of the distrct Of Powhatan Amelia
No'toway, Chesterfield and Petersburg is 81 cents
while the tax assessed o, the people Of the Northern
district OF Loudoun Fairfax and Prince William, A.
mounts to an average Of than 81 cents; and
That assessed on the people Of the rich and fertile Val
ley district OF Frederick and Shenandoah (the fnest part
oil the State) averages only i3 cents per he al.
The average per heal Of direct assessed on the
peop'e OF Frederick Is 56 cents; Loudoun Sc cents; JEFF
ieren Qhe finest county in the Ste) IS cents Angus
Ia. Rerks o.
kanawha, 20 cents Ohio 81 cents; Brooke, 10 cent;
Harrison, II cents; and MonoD gala Is whie the
age Smonn. assessed on the people OF Fuvana, is
al cents; Nelson, 10 cents; Amherst 81 cents; Buck
inghsm So cents; Campbell 81 cents; Oanx. SO cents.
hbemaric, 80 cents; Goochland % cents; Cumberland
" cents; Amelia, 100 cents; Notoway. lI9 cents.
Powhatsn, 1872 cents, and that little county Of
warwick, 10 cents; that is, 20 than Jef.r-
In these estimates it should be observed, free ne.
groes were included tax-paying citizens, because
they were so in the eye Of The law, tho il well know,
th"y in fact contribute little nothing to the Treasury:
TIE tax ON merchants and other licenses was xculrd
tho in truth they borne by the consumer, I'm ,br
immediate ncighbourhoo: the tax on tobacco inspe Ct
ed imposed under tie pretext Of providing fund for
insurance OF tobacco burned in tho public
AMI horne wholly by the tobacco planters was also ex
cuded: and the gross taxes assessed estimated in
stead OF the amount paid into the Treasury. The e.t
innate too, was founded the taxes OF the year 1925
while the numbers Of tax paying ciiz were asccr-
tanned by tho OF 1920 since which there has be
greater proportional increase Of white population in
MIR. l.. said he had been furnished by his friend the
honorable gentleman from Culpeper (Mr. Grccn) with
an estimate, in which the free negroes were "a. they
ought TO se) excluded from the number of tax paving
ciizens and the taxes licenses and on Tobacco
Inspected were excluded from the amount of taxation
ana which was founded on the amount Of direct taxes
actually paid into the Treasury in 1925 and the esti-
mate furnished by the Auditor of the white population
IN 1873 And il thence appeared, that the twenty nine
middle md counties contained white population of about
I9'oo' and pay average per head of land tax about
30 cents, of slave tax % cents, and Of the horse
and carriage tax cents the thirtysx counties and four
on tide water conaina white population of about
lOooO who pay average of about 81 cents of land
tN ~ cents OF slave tax and Of horse and car
ra2c tax: the fourteen valley counties contain whs
population OF about 900 who pay average of about
~ cents OF land tax cents OF slave and cents OF
morse and carriage tax: and the twenty
counties contain white population of about ISL 800
who pay average of about cents of land tax cents
OF slave tax, and cents of the tax horses and car
riagcs The white population East Of the Blue Ridge
is about 800 and West of the Blue Ridge 300
The hrs pay oil the land tax average OF 81 cents,
the latter only 10 cents the first pay of slave tax %
cents, the latter only cents: the first pay of the horse
aad carriage tax cents, the latter only cents.
Pursuing the comparison Mr. l.. stated that for every
dollar levied on the people wost othe b. Ridge there was
eoed on the people East of the Blue Ridge 50 I6 per
head and for every dollar paid by the Western people
the Eastern pay 50 2i per head. And these proper
tons OF the burthens borne by tie great divisions of
the state, have continued for long series of years
Ii had been supposed, Mr. L. understood, that tax
on neat cattle would prove comparatively lght TO the
Eastern, and oppressively burdensome TO the Western
PSope. lie believed il had been his fortune 10 be the
hrst person 10 propose rather to suggest that tax
when, in the session Of lSl2l3 he had the honor and
the responsibility OF being chairman OF the Committee OF
hnancP. War was raging maritime frontier:
the federal government told in plain terms that the
local authorities must look TO the local defence and
pend on their means: il absolutely neces sary
10 raise plore revenue, revenue, by some means
or other Lands, slaves horses and iages had been
line ont OF mind, the principal he might almost saw
the only productive subjects Of taxation; and thus the
people OF the Eastern part of the state had always horne
great proportion OF the burden. IL proposed to in
crease those staGdng taxes, and. casting about for
means TO reconcile the Eat people TO these addition
al burdens,by drawing small increase OF revenue from
the est, the tax cattle occurred as the be
suited TO the purpose IL was, therefore, sugcc.ed-
but 1t was not then imposed. II received with sue
moaning low, il the amin which was proyos.
ed TO lay the tax, had smell the blood Of
fellow ature, and raised it's painve voice for SWIM
patty from man and brute. Tbs war continuing and
the State Treasury well the federal uttering ma
ny hollow groan the tax cattle was at ieng; i'm
posed in 1915 but never afterwards renewed and ever
since, the re-bellowins Of that tax and the spec
tres oil our citizens whose deaths are imputed 10
The pes!ilential climate Of Nofolk in the month Of No
yenber (by the way, they there by tI.e 90
vernment Of the United States MOI of Virginia. and
w;re not drafted from the tramOntdne militia alone but
from every part OF the sta,e) have been raised az ain
and again, on ell occasions, prove the enormy of the
burdens borne, and the ansce ndant service.
Tor the defence oi their Eastern brethren by the peope
OF the West. But what MAS the produce OF that COW
tax, and by whom was il psid? Excluding the coun.
OF Je in ,oII eli 81. 4