50/174 The deficit occasioned in the Treasury by those | goods _which do not enter_ is made up by taxes | on our salt. | The other reports, with which I will not trouble the reader, told the same story. Gardeners, carpenters, shoemakers, boatmen, all complained of the same grievances. Their report would certainly have been exceedingly instructive. But, unfortunately, the poor laborers of our province, all _protected_ as they are, have not a cent, and, after having taken care of their cattle, cannot go themselves to the _Mutual Aid Society_. |