[f] The direct tax laid July 22-24,1813, by the national government, was apportioned in September, as follows: To Massachusetts, $316,270.71; to Rhode Island, $34,702.18; and to Connecticut, $118,167.71, divided as follows (which shows the relative wealth of the different sections of the state), Litchfield, $19,065.72; Fairfield, $18,810.50; New Haven, $16,723.10; Hartford, $19,608.02; New London, $13,392.04; Middlesex, $9,064.20; Windham, $14,524.38; and Tolland, $6,984.69. Duties were levied upon refined sugar, carriages, upon licenses to distilleries, auction sales of merchandise and vessels, upon retailers of wine, spirits, and foreign merchandise; while a stamp tax was placed upon notes and bills of exchange.--See _Niles Register_, v, 17; _Schouler_, ii, 380. The tax in 1815 was $236,335.41.--_Niles_, vii, 348. [g] Briefly, an independent Indian nation between Canada and the United States; no fleets or military posts on the Great Lakes, and no renunciation of the English rights of search and impressment. [h] The April (1815) session of the Connecticut legislature passed an "Act to secure the rights of parents, masters and guardians." It declared the proposed legislation in Congress contrary to the spirit of the Constitution of the United States, and an unauthorized interference with state rights. It commanded all state judges to discharge on habeas corpus all minors enlisted without consent of parents or guardians, and it enacted a fine, not to exceed five hundred dollars, upon any one found guilty of enlisting a minor against the consent of his guardian, and a fine of one hundred dollars for the advertising or publication of enticements to minors to enlist. [i] "Amendments: (1) Restrictions npon Congress requiring a two thirds vote in making and declaring war, (2) in laying embargoes, and (3) in admitting new states. (4) Restriction of the presidential office to one term without reëlection, and with no two successive Presidents from the same state. (5) Reduction of representation and taxation by not reckoning the blacks in the slave states. (6) No foreign born citizen should be eligible to office. [j] "They advocated nullification and threatened dissolution of the Union."--J. P. Gordy, _Political History of the United States_, ii, 299. [k] The President in March, 1812, sent to Congress the documents for which he had paid one John Henry $50,000. The latter claimed to be an agent sent from Canada in 1809 to detach New England Federalists from their allegiance to the Union. Congress by resolution proclaimed the validity of the documents. The British minister solemnly denied all knowledge of them on the part of his government. The American people believed in their authenticity, which belief was confirmed during the war by the distinct favor shown for a while to Massachusetts, and by the hope, openly entertained by England, of separating New England from New York and the southern states.