AID VALOREM DUTIES.
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Under the Gd vGlorem system all articles i'm
ported are taxed according TO their valwe that is


supposing for instance the tax OH sugar to be 80
per cent, pound costing three cents would pay
nine mills while pound costing JfOs cents would
pay cent FIVE mills-and so of all other articles


Thus an Gd Oalorem duty, whether it be five,
twenty, forty, or one hundred per cent, falls
equally and imparially upon all classes; and no
one has right to complain, because each consul
mer pays tax proportiOned to the cost or value
of the article he purchases 1t is plain, direct,
honest, Ineligible duty. 1t does not assume what
is not so; nor does it make the consumers of for.
eign articles pay as much tax upon the coarse