Westmoreland-Fayette County PA Archives News.....EARLY TAX PROBLEMS, March 10, 1798
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  Pittsburgh Gazette March 10, 1798
  To the Inhabitants of the Counties of Westmoreland & Fayette.
  The daily increase of vexatious suits, the official insolence and the 
  unaccountable accumulation of wealth, of Benjamin and John Wells, the present 
  Collectors of the Revenue, must excite a desire in every mind to see their 
  conduct investigated.  When a man pays money to a public officer, if he is 
  convinced, that the money is applied to the purposes for which it is levied, 
  he pays it cheerfully, but if on the contrary, he is impressed with the idea, 
  that the officer misapplies or embezzles the money, he pays with delay and 
  reluctance. - It is a matter of public notoriety, that the conduct of the 
  above collectors is complained of, with what justice, time along will 
  develop.  Instead of conciliating, they alienate the affections of the people 
  from the general government by their overbearing insolence and rapacious 
  rigour.  These facts must be of painful concern to every intellignet mind.  I 
  therefore suggest the idea, that the inhabitants of the above counties of 
  Westmoreland, and Fayette do meet at their respective courts, in their 
  respective county towns, and draw up a memorial to be directed to Henry 
  Miller, Esq. Supervisor of the revenue for the District of Pennsylvania, 
  therein stating the above facts, and desiring him to appoint some respectable 
  characters in each county to investigate the conduct of said collectors, and 
  to make a statement of their accounts, so that it may be ascertained, whether 
  or not, the accounts by them rendered into the office of the Supervisor, be 
  just and true.  J.P.
  
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