Tax, and several other Particulars upon the several Counties in the Colony, here is an Account of tlie men, Inhabitants in each County, and tlieir Representatives in the Assembly ; also the Quota of Tax in the same.

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Number I Assembly I Quota of Tecs.

of Men. 1 Men. | I. s. d.

In the Cit3^ and County of New York --- -- 1200 4 885 00 0

County of Albany, with Hauslerwich -- -- 540 ■ 4 175 lU 0

Kings Cojnty _____ 420 \l 730 CO U

Queens County _____ kxjo 2 644 10 0

County of Suffolk -- -- _ _ _ soq 2 680 10 0

County of Ulster -- -- -- -- _ 620 2 311 10 0

County of Westchester -- -- -- . -- 630 3 240 00 0

County of Richmond -- -- -- -- 350 2 226 1,3 4

Orange County _ _ _ _ _ J35 2 60 00 0

Dutchess County _ _ -- -- _ (jo 2 46 V] F

5635 25 ■ 4iX'0 00 0

By this plan it is evident, tliat the several Counties are very unequally Represented, as well with Eegard to the Number of Inhabitants in each, as to the Taxes they pay ; And to this Disproportion of Assembly- Men. is to be ascribed the unef|uai Taxing of the several Counties, without respect to their Number of People, their Riclies and Commerce. To evince tliis it will appear, that Kings-County .^ Queens-County and County of Suffolk. which contain 2220 Men, have only Six Representatives in Assembly, and are taxed at 2055/. w^hereas all the other Counties, having in them 3465 Men and so many Representatives that they are Taxed only at 1945/. So that at this time there is up Hudsons River Ten Assembly-Men, in Albany^ Ranslerwick, Ulster^ Orange and Dutchess Counties, and all those Ten represent, do not pay in one Tax so much as one County on the Island of J\^assau, w^hfere tliey have but two in each County.