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To Mr.. Brown, Chairman Of the Committee on


Ways and Means, in The First Branch Of The


City Council.


SIR-From the high and responsible station
you occupy, as chairman of the committee Of
ways and means, the tar payers of the city of
Baltimore, have a legal and moral right
no matter in what ward they may reside
to consider themselves as your immediate
and personal constituents; that fact conceded,
our right respectfully to ask of you information
vitally affecting our interests, will we are sure
also be admitted by you, who no doubt acknow-
ledge and act on the maxim, that no person in
this community is so elevated as to be above
the people, and none so humble as to be be-
meath them. With this short preface many
tax payers would most respectfully ask you, as
chairman of the committee of ways and means,
for an explanation of what appears to their
plain humble minds perfect paradox" VIZ:
our assessable property has increased three mil
lions over last year, and yet our taxes are to be
increased instead Of diminished. If there be
any one city in the United States, pressed
down by municipal taxes, incommensurate with
their resources, Baltimore is that fated city;
and before you and the Councils impose any
additional bur;hens upon us, ascertain at what
point of pressure the middling and humble cas-
ses of tax payers, with their little property will
be DESTROYED MANY TAX PAYERS,