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Fowle's New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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In Maryland, a bill proposed by Mr. Chase to impose a four-shilling poll tax on inhabitants to pay chosen clergy passed two readings narrowly (26-24) but was postponed to the next session amid strong opposition from non-Church groups viewing it as a violation of natural rights, with threats of forceful resistance.
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Extract of a letter from Baltimore, January 31.
Our state is now likely to be involved in all the horrors of party, occasioned by a bill brought into the Assembly by our Premier, Mr. Chase, for laying a tax of four shillings per poll upon all the inhabitants of this state, for the purpose of paying the clergy, leaving to every individual to fix upon his own clergyman.
The law had two readings, when 26 were for it, and 24 against it; but Mr. Chase, not wishing to risk it, had the final decision postponed until the next session, when I expect and hope it will be negatived. The Church people are pretty generally for it; but all the other societies are almost unanimously against it, as they consider any religious compulsion a violation of their natural right: they talk loudly of resisting it by force.
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Baltimore
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January 31
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bill passed two readings 26-24, postponed to next session; expected to be negatived; opposition from non-church societies threatens resistance by force.
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Bill introduced by Mr. Chase in the Assembly to tax four shillings per poll on inhabitants for paying chosen clergy; close vote on two readings; Church supporters favor it, others oppose as violation of natural rights.