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Newspaper
Weekly Register
Location
London, Middlesex, United Kingdom
Date
Dec 12, 1798
Page
6
Philadelphia reports a seasonal frost wave that ends three months of fierce disease. The Health Committee urges residents to return home, cleanse and air their houses, bedding, and clothing, and notes similar relief in New York Boston New London and Wilmington.
Parliament debated a bill replacing existing taxes with a general income tax for all residents and bodies in Great Britain. Details listed income brackets and rates. Critics, including Sir F Sinclair and Mr Pitt, pressed for timing and implementation changes while reports on land tax redemption and port improvements were considered. Petitions from the City of London and West India merchants questioned port logistics and suggested canal work. A committee plan approved for a second reading and Monday committee on the Land-tax Redemption Bill.
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