Excerpt from The Laws Relating to the Land Tax: Its Assessment, Collection, Redemption, and Sale; With a Statement of the Rights and Remedies of Persons Unequally Assessed; And an Appendix Containing All the Statutes in Force; With a Copious Index Nearly fifteen years have now elapsed since the Writer first endeavoured to direct public atten tion to the anomalous condition of the laws relating to the collection and assessment of the Land Tax; and had his suggestions been adopted, for an equalization of this tax, an increase to the revenue of at least fifty millions sterling would ere this have been secured, without the slightest inconvenient pressure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.