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REPAIRING FORT DETROIT.
This measure was not only necessary for easing the inhabitants but for the conveniency of public buildings. The annual tax of two sol per foot in front was continued till the surrender of this country to the English, since which the service has required such taxes of us that they have been almost unsupportable. Permit us, Sir, to mention them and you will see that we stand in greater need of assistance than be obliged to pay any new demands. Capt. Campbell, the first English commandant at Detroit, on his arrival here levied a tax on the proprietors of the Fort for lodging the troops, which amounted to a very considerable sum, besides each of the farmers were obliged to pay a cord of wood per acre in front. The second year the proprietors paid again for quartering the troops and the farmers furnished double the quantity of wood they did the year before. The third year Col. Gladwin continued the same taxes.
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