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[ Buchez and Roux, VI. 345. Report of M. Muguet, July 1, 1790.]
3241 ([return])
[ Minutes of the meeting of the National Assembly. (Sitting of October 24, 1789.)—Decree of September 27, 1789, applicable the 1st of October. There are other alleviations applicable on the 1st of January, 1790.]
3242 ([return])
[ Mercure de France, February 27, 1790. (Memorandum of the garde des sceaux, January 16.)—Observations of M. Necker on the report made by the Financial committee, at the sitting of March 12, 1790.]
3243 ([return])
[ "Archives Nationales," H, 1453. Correspondence of M. de Bercheny, April 24, May 4 and 6, 1790: "It is much to be feared that the tobacco-tax will share the fate of the salt-tax.">[
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[ Mercure de France, July 31, 1790 (sitting of July 10.) M. Lambert, Comptroller General of the Finances, informs the Assembly of "the obstacles which continual outbreaks, brigandage, and the maxims of anarchical freedom impose, from one end of France to the other, on the collection of the taxes. On one side, the people are led to believe that, if they stubbornly refuse a tax contrary to their rights, it abolition will be secured. Elsewhere, smuggling is openly carried on by force; the people favor it, while the National Guards refuse to act against the nation. In other places hatred is excited, and divisions between the troops and the overseers at the toll-houses: the latter are massacred, the bureaus are pillaged, and the prisons are forced open."—Memorandum from M. Necker to the National Assembly, July 21, 1790.]