These dues varied in amount, and in the method of their collection.
They maintained order in the markets, settled disputes, examined the quality of the articles exposed for sale, tested weights and measures, collected the harbour dues and enforced the shipping regulations.
Travelling by the high roads during his reign was comparatively safe; although it must be added that the excessive exactions of dues and customs very seriously damaged the external trade.
All this trade emanates from Kabul, there being no transit trade with Bokhara owing to the heavy dues levied by the amir.
All occupiers of public land paid dues to the state through a state contractor (publicanus.
Owners who turned cattle or sheep on pasture land belonging to the state also paid fixed dues to the treasury.
Nevertheless," said Philip, "the dues are to be demanded.
Yet they're for taxing you for dues for a harbour.
Is it not enough that we must pay scat and wattle, which were all the public dues under our old Norse government; but must they come over us with king's dues and customs besides?
Feudal and otherdues on corn ground at the laird's mill.
Voted likewise, that if any man shall not have paid his dues for six consecutive months, and if the lot common to all men has befallen him, his claim to a burial shall not be considered, even if he shall have so stipulated in his will.
The income of the society, which was made up of the initiation fees and monthly dues of the members, and of donations, was supplemented now and then by a system of fines.
Ilchester in Somerset for a remission of dues "because the town is so impoverished and desolate of people that the burgesses are unable to pay the said ferme," and for the cancelling of all arrears due since the 43rd year of Edward III.
Having left the chamber of the god the king made a decree by which he endowed the temple of Khnemu with lands and gifts, and he drew up a code of laws under which every farmer was compelled to pay certain dues to it.
When not occupied with his books or his menagerie, the Scholar-King found time to grant charters to the town, and he let to the city the collective dues or fee-farm rent of the place.
His financial position was from the outset strong, for not only had he the revenue from the accustomed papal dues but he had also the support of the powerful religious orders; e.
The poor dupes who have been "soaked" for regalia and dues will wake up some time and discover how they have been deluded and misled.
Kleagles who have left the order say that the "initiation" fee is called a "donation" so that the Klan can escape paying income tax to the government, because dues in clubs and societies are taxable.
The richer Guilds, especially those connected with trade, sought by the limitation of entry and the exaction of high entrance fees and dues after entry, to keep the Guild "select" and establish an oligarchy in its government.
The numerous rules and dues which were imposed on this rich guild, which, with its slaughterers and knackers, formed a formidable and powerful company, appear to have been balanced by considerable privileges.
Founders of Thebes, the only scion left Of Cadmus' issue, how unworthily, By what mean instruments I am oppressed, For reverencing the dues of piety.
But Antigone, sister of the dead, placing the dues of affection and piety before her obligation to the magistrate, disobeyed the edict at the sacrifice of her life.
The sovereign of Tunis engaged not to require of the Franks any of the dues imposed in his kingdom upon foreign commerce.
That the collectors of the king's dues (pernours des prises) in towns and at fairs take more than is lawful; 8.
At the Conquest we find the burgesses or inhabitants of towns living under the superiority or protection of the king, or of some other lord, to whom they paid annual rents, and determinate dues or customs.
After some successes over the plunderers, they went so far as to forbid the lords to take any dues from their vassals, on pain of incurring the indignation of the brotherhood.
In other federations the dues are lower, coming down in some organizations to 10 centimes a month.
Dues were to be paid on a graduated scale according to membership.
The latter was now to obtain regular monthly dues for the continuation of its work.
The syndical chamber was to encourage the creation of a "society of credit and savings" which should have for its aim the collection of funds by regular dues paid by the members.
The reluctance to high dues is in part the result of the comparatively low wages which prevail in France.
For instance, the Federation of Building Trades is the most revolutionary organization in the Confederation; at the same time it is the most numerous, and its members pay the highest dues (after the Federation du Livre) in France.
To meet the necessary expenses the dues were raised to ten francs per thousand members for each Federation of industry and to seven francs per thousand members for each Departmental Union.
The duke replied that he would do so willingly if he had the wherewithal to do it, but that it was for him who received the dues belonging to the kingdom to discharge that duty.
He had levies made of rents, of dues on merchandise, and all the revenues belonging to the count, wherever it might be in Flanders, and he disbursed them at his will, and gave them away without rendering any account.
He had considerably increased the percentage to be paid on real property acquired by the Church (called possessions in mortmain), by way of compensation for the mutation-dues which their fixity caused the State to lose.
A quarrel had arisen between Philip and the Archbishop of Narbonne on the subject of certaindues claimed by both in that great diocese.
Also the injunction that no one should withhold their dues from the clergy was extended to the Protestant ministers.
They were also still obliged to pay tithes and other church dues to the Episcopal clergy of their dioceses, and their marriages and baptisms had to be administered in the parish churches.
Secession from the church is freely allowed, and releases from all personal obligations to pay ecclesiastical dues and perform ecclesiastical duties.
The annual dues shall be $25, payable at the annual meeting, but no league, association, or club shall be considered a member until its first annual dues have been paid.
This will give to each individual a full knowledge of his rights, and of what are the only dues to be expected from him by government.
As a matter of convenience, the same cultivator may continue to occupy the same portion of land for life, and his children, after his decease, may inherit the ground which he cultivated, paying the dues to which he was liable.
Such orders will afterwards be issued, whether remitting any part or the whole of the dues of government, or enforcing their strict collection, as may be deemed necessary.
It further provided that all dues to the government in the future should be paid either in coin or in currency issued exclusively by the government, and that all expenses should be paid in the same forms of money.
The lands of these cultivators were burdened with a variety of feudal dues and charges which had to be commuted before they could become freeholds.
To the funds accumulated from initiation fees, membership dues and the sale of the associations' credit have been added, in constantly increasing amounts in recent years, the savings of the members themselves.
The speculators who farmed these dues cried out that they were being defrauded, and they were recompensed by a cession to them of half the 10 per cent.
All the light-dues collected from the general shipping in Scotland are received by the commissioners for public use.
Such practitioner may, unless otherwise disqualified, obtain re-registration and re-instatement to full privileges by applying to the registrar and paying up the fees and dues and taking out his certificate (ib.
If a practitioner omits to take out such certificate, he shall not be entitled thereto until he pays the certificate fee, and any other fees or dues which he owes the college (ib.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dues" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
