The Piedmontese government is satisfied with 13 per thousand on exports, and 58 per thousand on imports.

Of the two countries, I should prefer farming in Piedmont.
Cattle are subject to vexatious taxes, which add from twenty to thirty per cent.

to their cost.

They pay when at pasture; they pay nearly twenty-three shillings per head at market; they pay on exportation.
And yet the breeding of cattle is one of the most valuable resources of the State, and one of those which ought to be the most assisted.
The horses raised in the country pay five per cent.

on their value every time they change hands.