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Metôde tres humblement proposée pour fournir au gouvernement, les moyens d'acquitter cette partie des dettes publiques, qui est rachetable par le Parlement, en beaucoup moins de temps qu'on ne le pourra faire, en suivant les metodes qui ont êté jusqu'icy en usage: Avec quelques raisonnemens en justification de ce prôjêt.
Date: 1715]- Books
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Additional articles of impeachment against Robert Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.
Great Britain. Parliament.Date: 1715]- Books
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Unto the Right Honourable, the Lords of Council and Session, the petition of Baillie James Steedman, feuar of the mill of Kinross, ...
Steedman, James.Date: 1722]- Books
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Principes sur l'impot, Ou la liberté et l'immunitée des hommes et de leurs travaux.
Date: 1775- Books
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Copy of the Honourable George Thomas, and George Lucas, Esquires, protests against the proceedings of the Council of Antigua, in reducing the secretary's fees.
Thomas, George, 1695?-1774.Date: 1736]- Books
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Estimate of the produce of the tax upon income; with a few observations on the impolicy of the measure.
Date: 1799- Books
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A scheme for utterly abolishing the present heavy and vexatious tax of tythe. In a letter to a member of Parliament. First published in the year 1742. The second edition. With a letter to the printer, relative to the present circumstances of affairs.
Robertson, William, 1705-1783.Date: M.DCC.LXIII. [1763]- Books
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A letter to the Right Hon. William Pitt, on the use of hair-powder, &c. &c. The second edition. To which is added a postscript. By John Donaldson, Esq.
Donaldson, John, active 1790-1795.Date: 1795- Books
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A Proposal for raising one hundred thousand pounds, by laying a duty upon hats.
Date: 1698-1710]- Books
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A second letter from Mr. Pigott, near Geneva, to the Right Honourable William Pitt. On the necessity and advantage of a taxation on the publick funds.
Pigott, Robert, 1736-1794.Date: M,DCC,LXVII. [1767]- Books
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A proposal for raising 200,000l, per annum, by a small tax, to take off the haf-penny a pot on beer, ...
Date: 1710?]- Books
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Memorial and observations concerning the town of Edinburgh's duty on ale, and the appropriation and management thereof, till candlemas 1753; (as intended to have been laid before a meeting of the Parliamentary overseers in anno 1754): with continuation of the history of th management of said duty from candlemas 1753 to July 1760; Concluding in some Degree to one of the Points now in Debate between the Magistrates and the Heretors and Inhabitants, touching the Supply of the City with Water: and a preface: by Andrew Chalmer writer, and one of the overseers.
Edinburgh (Scotland). Town council.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLX. [1760]- Books
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An original system of taxation; or general contribution, by way of stamp-duty. In which all His Majesty's subjects, of every description, being under the Protection of the Laws of this Realm, are required to contribute to the exigencies of the state, in some proportion to their rank and situations in life; but no Persons are required to contribute more than they can afford. Offered a a substitute for the Window Tax, Or any other Imposts that are deemed peculiarly oppressive and injurious to the lower Orders of People, and less productive to his Majesty's Revenue. By one who wishes to be thought a good subject, And is a well-wisher to all People, as well as to the Happiness and Prosperity of his Country.
One Who Wishes To Be Thought a Good Subject.Date: 1796- Books
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Letters, &c. which passed betwixt J. Wing, and Geo. Maxwell, on the North Level Business. In 1788.
Wing, John, agent to the Duke of Bedford.Date: M,DCC,LXXXVIII. [1788]- Books
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A table of fees or duties to be from time to time paid to the vicar, churchwardens, parish-clerk and sexton of the parish of Deptford ... for performing the several duties ... here after specified ...
Saint Paul (Deptford, England : Parish)Date: 1769- Books
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Hints towards an improved system of taxation, extending to all persons in exact proportion to their property, and without any kind of investigation or disclosure of their circumstances. With an appendix, Recommending a Plan, arising from this System, for the Institution of a National Bank.
Date: 1798- Books
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A guide to the people of Great Britain, for a fair and equal representation and taxation. With a map of England and Wales, divided into districts. And also a variety of plans for paying off the national debt. Addressed to the socity for constitutional information.
Phelps, William.Date: MDCCLXXXIV. [1784]- Books
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An address to the public: setting forth, amongst other things, a case of unlawful imprisonment; and introductory to an essay which will be shortly published, intitled, Thoughts on the several regulations necessary to the appointment of an advocate-general.
Mawhood, Pararicini.Date: 1775- Books
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A vindication of the shop-tax: addressed to the landholders of England.
Date: MDCCLXXXIX. [1789]- Books
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An appeal to the people, on the contents of the budget, proving the Taxes not only Oppressive, but Ill-Chosen: and submitting to their opinion certain Ways and Means for reducing the National Debt, without Tax or Assessment: being a compleat refutation of Mr. Pitt's plan of effecting the same, by Means of the Sinking Fund; which is herein demonstrated, not only ruinous to the Subject, but fundamentally fallacious, and consequently founded in Error. By one of themselves Audite.
One of Themselves.Date: MDCCLXXXV. [1785]- Books
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The following letter having been sent by an anonymous correspondent, to Charles Stisted, Esq. he takes the liberty of strongly recommending it to the perusal of the public. A letter addressed to the inhabitants of Great Britain, shewing them the dangerous tendency of libellous publications, and guarding them against being imposed upon by the false Representations such Writings contain.
Date: [1793]- Books
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A short view of the grounds and limits of the obligation to pay taxes. Addressed to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester; by Thomas Percival, M.D. F.R.S. Lond. and Eding. &c. &c.
Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.Date: [1785]- Books
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Copy of a letter to Mr. Alderman Skinner, from Mr. Hardie, author of the pamphlet, entitled ̀̀taxation of coals,'' Stating his Remarks on the proposed Bill, for allowing coals in Scotland to be carried Coastwise, Free of Duty.
Hardie, David.Date: 1793]- Books
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Dr. Davenant's opinion anent the salt and malt-taxes in England.
Date: 1706]- Books
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The following address, and particular instances as to the duties demanded on prize goods brought into Jamaica, were sent from that island ... in March 1709/10: ... To the Queen's most excellent Majesty. The humble address of the Governor, Council and Assembly of Jamaica.
Jamaica.Date: 1711?]