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Excerpt from Report of Committee Appointed by Halifax Merchants' Tax Reform Association in Re Assessment: Halifax, N. S., November 30th, 1891 This system modified to suit the requirements of Halifax, your Committee has decided to recommend. In order to prevent an unfair share of the burden being thrown upon real estate, it is necessary that the maximum rate upon it should be fixed. In Montreal it is so fixed at one and a quarter per cent. Upon its actual cash value. The present rate in Halifax is per cent. Your Committee recommend that the rate on real estate be fixed not to exceed But while that is the maximum they hope that under the proposed system the present rate would not be exceeded a...