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REPAIRING FORT DETROIT.
Captain Campbell, the first English commandant at Detroit, on his arrival, levied a tax on the proprietors in the fort for the lodgment of the troops which amounted to a very considerable sum, and each of the farmers had to pay a cord of wood per acre in front, the second year he caused the proprietors to pay again for said lodgment: of said troops, and each farmer two cords of wood per acre in front. The third year Col. Gladwin continued the same taxes. And in the year 1763 the taxes for the fort alone amounted, to 2770, equal to 184. 13. 4 pounds and in the year 1764 to 2370 or a 158 pounds. In the year 1765 Colonel Campbell caused to be published by Messrs. Baby & Chapoton that the taxes were at an end, that the people should pay for the future as in the time of the French King, which is two sous per foot in front for the inhabitants in said fort, 2-8 and of a bushel of wheat per acre in front by the farmers;
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