Excerpt from A Survey of the National Debts, the Sinking Fund, the Civil List, and the Annual Supplies: Giving a Clear and Impartial Account of Our Present State With Regard to Publick Money In order to pay off thefe Debts, and make the Security valid, Taxes, or Impofis, were laid upon particular Commodities, at the Time, when the refpeeiive Loans were made. Some oi thele Taxes, or [tape/is, were laid on for fuch a Number of Years each, as were then thought fufi'icient for the Produce of each of them to dilcharge that particular Debt, to which it was by Law appropriated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.