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A Tax for Hounds and Game to Fund Parishes Militia
A proposed five pound annual tax on every person who keeps a pack of hounds and one pound per year on each person who kills game or keeps greyhounds. Collected by churchwardens to fund militia days, with surpluses to aid the poor. lower rates for those paying one or two pounds to be qualified for shooting or hunting. Advocate urges mass public support and warns against private tax impositions and monopolies in food supplies. The author pledges personal restraint and public spirit, urging others to follow to curb private excesses and restore national welfare.
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