Additional Revenue.
On motion of Mr. Harper, the House went into a Committee of the Whole on the report of the Committee of Ways and Means, Mr. Dent in the chair, when the three following resolutions being read, viz:
Resolved, That it will be expedient to raise an additional revenue of —— dollars annually, by a direct tax.
Resolved, That the said tax ought to be laid by uniform assessment, on lands, houses, and slaves.
Resolved, That the apportionment of the said tax ought to be made among the several States according to their respective number of inhabitants, as ascertained by the last census.
Mr. Harper moved to fill the blank in the first resolution with two millions.
The question was put and carried—47 to 25.
The resolution was then agreed to as amended, as was also the second.
The third resolution being under consideration,
Mr. Dayton moved to strike out the words "last census," as it might be determined when the bill came in whether the number of inhabitants should be ascertained by the last census, or a new one should be taken.