warks first tax hudget amounted to $1,200 in 1668.In l>15 it amounted to ,$6,850,000. Thus it is easily seen thatNewark has grown sufficiently to warrant a hig celehrationon her 250th hirthda\ anniversary. Taxes were ])aid in grain, as gold and siher coins werepractically unknown. The tax… … A kJvM. HISTURV OK NEWARK Tlioiuas Jdlmsoii, the tax collcclor. was also the tax-criikeeper. It was a nxisi profitahle arrangeineiU tliat could havebeen devised—for Johnson. When a settler crnne to ])a\- histaxes there was nsnall\- a surplus o\-er the e.xact atnouin ofgrain needed for the tax hill,…
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