Excerpt from Journal of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Begun and Held in the City of Frankfort, on Saturday, the Thirty First Day of December, in the Year of Our Lord, 1853, and of the Commonwealth, the Sixty-Second From the condition of our national revenues, we may expect a speedy reduction of the tariff. The lessening of the restrictions upon the com merce of the country, and the reduction of the taxes imposed upon the great producing classes are results greatly to be desired, and would tend to add to the general prosperity of the country. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.