Six hundred dollars a year. . BOSTON:TICKNOR AND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by TiCKNOR AND FlELDS, in the Clerk^s Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,.Cambridge. PREFACE. HEN Congress was suddenly called on to de-vise ways and means for carrying on therecent war for the preservation of the Union,it was graciously pleased to exempt fromtaxation the incomes of the humble class to which Ithen belonged. It permitted us to receive six hundreda year without taxation, charging us only on the s
Six hundred dollars a year. . BOSTON:TICKNOR AND Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by TiCKNOR AND FlELDS, in the Clerk^s Office of the District Court of the District ofMassachusetts. University Press : Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,.Cambridge. PREFACE. HEN Congress was suddenly called on to de-vise ways and means for carrying on therecent war for the preservation of the Union,it was graciously pleased to exempt fromtaxation the incomes of the humble class to which Ithen belonged. It permitted us to receive six hundreda year without taxation, charging us only on the sur-plus. This exemption included the large body of citi-zens who lived on small salaries, clerks in offices andstores, mechanics, laborers, and women whose incomesfrom rents, interest, or dividends were just sufficientto enable them to live. It was a wise and just concession to the necess:of numerous classes, upon whom great burdens \about to fall. It was foreseen by those who tnusconceded this exemption that, while the psixhundreddollar00unse
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