At the moment of receiving the oaths of fidelity, he abolished those imposts which had occasioned the recent discontents.
Such rigorous measures having inspired a general panic, the imposts were again proclaimed at Easter, to include retrospectively the previous year.
The imposts were considered light, for the soil was in many parts productive, and grain was exported largely from it and the adjoining Marca, at the port of Sinigaglia.
The provinces are restrained, unless with the general consent, from entering into foreign treaties; from establishing imposts injurious to others, or charging their neighbors with higher duties than their own subjects.
Who can pretend that commercial imposts are, or would be, alone equal to the present and future exigencies of the Union?
Among the restraints imposed by the Union of the Netherlands on its members, one is, that they shall not establish imposts disadvantageous to their neighbors, without the general permission.
The confinement of the national revenues to this species of imposts would be attended with inequality, from a different cause, between the manufacturing and the non-manufacturing States.
It was at first intended to lay the principal burden of the imposts upon the people; but the people, says Nicetas, arose like a sea agitated by the winds.
Crete, then, enjoying as she does this exceptional favor and advantage, cannot with right and justice pretend to be exempted from the imposts mentioned above.
Many abandoned Spain and a portion of these found in Rome a refuge, for Alexander welcomed them in view of the heavy imposts which they paid for safety and toleration.
New and oppressive imposts alienated the affections of all his subjects.
So well satisfied were the Aragonese that to show their gratitude they had already, on January 18th, ordered the cities and towns to pay all current imposts as well as the suspended subsidio within thirty-five days.
In the futile Concordia of Catalonia in 1599, it was provided that levies and executions for all taxes and imposts could be made on familiars and commissioners by the ordinary officers of justice.
Inquisitors shall not protect widows of officials and familiars in refusing to pay imposts and contributions.
His attempt to substitute a rational system of direct taxation for the countless Spanish imposts failed.
Though he abandoned Sucre's premature attempt to reform the taxing system, he energetically applied and improved the old imposts and soon brought some order out of the financial chaos.
Dingley, whose name was given to the bill, a tariff measure levying the highest rates yet laid in the history of American imposts was prepared and driven through the House of Representatives.
The imposts were abolished, and replaced by direct and indirect taxes, which are still in force.
The budgets usually showed deficits, and theimposts of all kinds were raised by tyrannical farmers-general.
The townsmen, entrenched in their towns, the seigneurs in their castles, the bishops in their dioceses, reused to pay the imposts decreed at the royal pleasure.
Hence it arises that the public charges increase in proportion as civilization spreads, and that imposts are augmented as knowledge pervades the community.
On the 2d of June, the nobles announced to the dauphin that they would serve for a month at their own expense, and that they would pay besides such imposts as should be decreed by the good towns.
No State shall, without the Consent of the Congress, lay any Imposts or Duties on Imports or Exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection.
The tower arches seem originally to have sprung from the imposts ornamented with trefoil leaves which can still be seen, though they were cut through when the present capitals were introduced at the time of the Norman restoration.
The Company was to have exclusive control of trade, and all goods manufactured in New France were to be free of imposts on exportation.
Thus was it that the oppressive taxation of Spain became the direct instrument of popular corruption, and, by extending imposts to the minutest ramifications of society, it made the people smugglers, cheats, and perjurers.
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