The New York Journal, And Weekly Register

To ascertain a judicious mode for levying of taxes, says a correspondent, requires greater study, and more intense application, than the generality of our fellow citizens are aware of. It has been observed, that little pains is taken to investigate the justice of the distinctions which are studiously made between the town and country interests: these necessary distinctions ever create broils, and sometimes the most virulent parties, in all republican governments—

To do justice to some of the members of the hon. House of Assembly, continues our correspondent, the system for taxation lately gone through with by paragraph, but unhappily rejected in a body on the ninth instant, was calculated upon a scale of greater equality than any ever adopted in this state since the revolution. How much is it to be wished then, that this bill may still pass into a law of the state, which, by an impartial apportionment, would throw into the state treasury 70 or 80,000 pounds.

In running over the several taxable articles for my own gratification, there appeared to be a vacancy for an additional clause, which would not only redound to the interest of the state by augmenting its revenue, but be a forcible inducement for those persons who possess large real estates, and are absent, to return and spend their money among us: this additional, partial, clause should provide, that absent proprietors pay DOUBLE TAX on all their rentable property within the state. Such a clause is humbly submitted, by our correspondent, to the serious consideration of the hon. the Legislature.