That the proprietary estate ought, with other estates, to be taxed:" and thereby did in effect determine and pronounce, that the opposition so long made in various shapes to that just principle, by the proprietaries, was fundamentally wrong and unjust.
Franklin asserts that the principle of taxing proprietary estates is just and should be upheld.
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