Note 647 — Chapter V
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See Act of June 27, Laws of New Hampshire, 1816, 45-48. This repealed the Federalist Judiciary Acts of 1813 and revived laws repealed by those acts. (See Barstow, 383, and Plumer, 437-38.)
The burning question of equality of religious taxation was not taken up by this Legislature. The bill was introduced in the State Senate by the Reverend Daniel Young, a Methodist preacher, but it received only three votes. Apparently the reform energy of the Republicans was, for that session, exhausted by the Judiciary and College Acts. The "Toleration Act" was not passed until three years later. (McClintock: History of New Hampshire, 507-29; also Barstow, 422.) This law is omitted from the published acts, although it is indexed.