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country should ever enjoy, incompatible with the 

 industrious habits as well as prejudicial to the social, 

 moral and religious obligations of the people. 



' That your petitioner has long and deeply thought 

 of and deplored the late dilapidated state of our 

 finances, the state of our debt, revenue, expendi- 

 ture, and resources, as well as our present un- 

 wholesome system of taxation ; and your petitioner, 

 with his faculties unimpaired, and the same zeal 

 to serve his country as he had when he first put his 

 foot on board of a man-of-war, is prepared to prove 

 before any committee your Honourable House shall 

 appoint, upon certain returns being produced, that 

 such a revenue can be raised from the present mode 

 of travelling, as shall surpass all others in its efiiciency, 

 its safety, its equality, its justice, and its policy, and 

 that, too, without any interference with vested 

 rights. 



' And here your petitioner cannot but remind your 

 Honourable House that in cases where great changes 

 have been wrought, care has always been takeji 

 of vested rights ; such as with the Municipal Eeform 

 Bill, which provides compensation for the clerks 

 of diff'erent corporate towns. 



' Therefore your petitioner, lastly, prays that in 

 passing any bills having reference to railroads, in 

 some or one of them such provision shall be made 



