clxii. 238]

1821 Jany 6

Rid Yourselves

' Preliminary Distinctions

If in virtue of the terms under the powers established /ordained/ by the Constitutional Code any appearance were produced of your being gainers by it otherwise than by saving on taxes, either it would be by an arrangement which without the appearance would possess the quality /produce the effect/ of a tax, or by one which whether it produced any thing or nothing in the way of saving in tax to you would to them be more burthensome and thence more provocative of resistence than a tax, or if it were productive of any advantage to you without greater disadvantage to them would have place as well without the remedy[?] as under and by virtue of it.