Twenty-seven citizens ask the legislature "to destroy the unjust advantage which hawkers and pedlars now, by law, enjoy over the merchants of the state." They point out that the merchant, "in addition to the state and county tax, paid for the priviledges of selling goods, contributes to the revenues of the state, by the tax assessed upon his person, his lands and negroes." They therefore pray "that you would be pleased to levy a tax upon pedlars and hawkers equal, at least, to that now paid by merchants."
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