(seq. 14)

Stamp Act
For the Chronicle
Mr Addams
One of your Cuntry Customers wishes to be Informed by some
wiser head, through the Chanel of your usefull paper, whether
their Cant be Some Cheeper way found out to git money into
the Continental treasury, when it is needed, than by the
Stamp act -

I was under the nesecaty a few Days ago the other Day to git two Stamp Noats of the Lowest Denominat[?]
& I had to send three miles after them [?] the trader Charged twelve
Cents & a halfe for them, & at the Common price [Loan?] of a horse for
three miles out & inn travel it would make them cost twenty four Cents
ondly Eight of which goes into the treasurey, & I have bin
Informed that their is a Deduction from that of ten percent
to these [tradirs?] who purchises by the Quantity to Resale - So that
at this Lay the above Rate (if I Calculate Right) it costs the peopel three Hundred Dollars
to git ninety into the treasury -

I am the more anctious for Information - Because that
whare I Live, when the State government Cauls for money
we can have it assesed, Colected & paid in to the treasury
for Less than Six 3 purcent -
Econimy

NB pleas to Insart publish the above & you will oblige a true
frind to the Chronicle