These subsidies were levied both on moveables and on land, but were chiefly supported by an assessment on the land at the nominal rate of four shillings in the pound.
A new valuation was made, and upon this basis a tax was annually laid upon the land varying from a minimum of one shilling in time of peace to four shillings in times of emergency.
But the sailors who sail from the port of London, seldom earn above three or four shillings a month more than those who sail from the port of Leith, and the difference is frequently not so great.
It will be remarked that thirty-four shillings in Mark Lane is at the rate of one dollar and three cents per bushel of sixty pounds.
The land tax of the city of London, for example, at four shillings in the pound, amounts to L.
But the sailors who sail from the port of London, seldom earn above three or four shillings a-month more than those who sail from the port of Leith, and the difference is frequently not so great.
This consisted in a reduction of stamps for bonds, required from exporters of certain goods to be delivered at certain places, from forty shillings to four shillings.
On the 13th of November Lord North moved in the commons that the land-tax should be raised to four shillings in the pound.
In 1785 it was again partially opened; so that we find traders purchasing flour in Louisville at twenty-four shillings a hundred-weight, and carrying it down stream to sell in New Orleans at thirty dollars a barrel.
It has recently been fresh-painted, and written on in conspicuous characters, for the benefit, I suppose, of those who cannot exist under the thought of wheat atfour shillings a bushel.
North said that 9,000 additional seamen were wanted at once, and raised the land tax to four shillings.
More general indignation was excited by the proposal of a tax of four shillings a hogshead on cider, to be paid by the maker and collected as an excise.
Money was wanted for the service of the country, and specially for the maintenance of the navy, and a month later Townshend proposed that the land tax should be continued at four shillings in the pound.
Four shillings a week--ten guineas a year for this pigsty--is an exorbitant rent: you might do better.
Four shillings a week is the rent of the cellar below the pie-shop; the foul smell arises from the gradual decay of the basement, and the utter neglect of all sanitary precautions.
At present their only chance is to live in the rookeries, and there they must pay from two-and-sixpence to four shillings for a single room.
But they finally gave way, and a land tax of four shillings in the pound was carried.
I got twenty-four shillings a week, rather better pay than the other men, because I used to take shifts.
The San Francisco bricklayer receives twenty shillings per day, and at present is on strike for twenty-four shillings.
The committee fortified their position by extracts from despatches sent by Lords Stanley and Glenelg, and completely justified the imposition of a tax of four shillings currency on wilderness lands.
This day I received a pair of shoes, in balance of four shillings due me as wages.
This day I received of Captain Thomas White, in behalf of wages due, four Rix dollars, each valued at four shillings stirling.
Two hundred and fifty quarters of malt are allowed, at four shillings a quarter.
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