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 | in the colony the court should recommend three persons “as they shall think most fit and able” to the governor, who was empowered to select one of the nominees to be sheriff for the next two years. |
| To remedy this evil it was provided that no county court should recommend to the governor any person who had served two years successively, unless he could produce a certificate from the treasurer of his district saying that he had fully accounted for and delivered all public taxes he had received as sheriff. |
| Governor Tryon saw the weakness of the system of collecting the public taxes and the abuses to which it was liable. |
| 1768: Information From Answers.com (1145 words) |
| Chauncy warns of the incursion of the Church of England on the liberties of the colonial churches. |
| The Philadelphian was the hostess of the most distinguished literary salon in colonial America. |
| 1768 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). |
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