Just got this document this week thanks to the Vermont State Archives. They digitized it and sent it via email at no charge. Some of the names are very difficult to read so I apologize to anyone whose ancestors name I have butchered in the transcription.
A Petition of the
Land owners of Fairfax for a Land Tax
---- Oct. 15, 1795
B.? Hopkins, Secy.
In Genl. Assembly 15th Oct. 1795
Rec’d & referred
to the 2nd Land tax ----
Wm. R. Whitney,
clerk
To the Honorable the
General Assembly now sitting, Your committee to whom was refer’d the within do
report that the prayer thereof --- to be granted.
D. Sheldon for
Comtt.
Windsor 19th
of Oct. 1795
In Genl. Assembly 19th
Oct. 1795
Rec’d. & accepted
& ----
W.R. Whitney, Clk.
To the Honorable ---
General Assembly to be Conven’d. at Windsor on Thursday the Eight day of October
next. The petition of a large number of
proprietors ^and Landowners of Fairfax Humbly ---- that whereas the town of
Fairfax in subject to the extraordinary expense of Building ^a Bridge over the
river Lamoil [Lamoille] and the land being very wet in many parts of the Town
they are under the necessaty of expanding more (?) upon the highways than
almost any other town in that part of the state your Petitioners therefore
request that a tax of one penny upon the acre ---- may be laid upon the land in
Fairfax publick right ---- for the purpose of building bridges and replacing the
road in sd. Town as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray.
Jno. Dove - did exist, is he our man?
