In order not to attract the occupiers of these houses we conversed in low whispers, and in obedience to the local detective's suggestion climbed the gates one after another and carefully descended within the garden.
It is in your power to render us assistance in a rather confidential matter regarding theoccupiers of the house next door--your neighbours on the left.
The tax was laid indiscrimately upon all fixed property; so that the occupiers of villas, shopkeepers, merchants, and others who did not employ labourers, had to pay a portion of the wages for those that did.
But the test would not be fair unless the occupiers of the poorer land had a tolerably secure tenure so long as they paid the highest rent that a reasonable agent could impose.
Ffook, women can vote as occupiers and not as owners, they are, whether spinsters or wives, eligible to be parish councillors.
A human skull was formerly shown here, beside the staircase, which the occupiers would not permit to be removed.
Not many paces distant was the inlet to a subterraneous passage, supposed to lead under the deepest foundations of the castle; but its termination was now a mystery, at any rate, to the present occupiers and inhabitants of the place.
The soil is so poor, and rents in some instances so exorbitant, that occupiers of four or five acres can do little more than maintain themselves, yet it is their aid alone that saves their still poorer brethren from starvation.
It was the device of conquerors to maintain their possessions, and is not to be found among nations, the original occupiers of the land, nor in the conquests of states which maintained standing armies.
The amount expended under order of the commissioners was made recoverable against the estate, and the occupierswere made liable to their orders; and they had power to commit persons refusing to give security to carry out the act.
Instead of spending all their lives in rented houses, thousands upon thousands of families could become the owners and occupiers of homes.
The proper recourse for the occupiers of uneconomic holdings is to get control of more land, which is exactly what has been happening in Ireland through the action of the Congested Districts Board.
But, whatever the views of the government, it is tolerably clear that the original occupiersmust have chiefly represented men of this stamp.
Nay, if the history of the public land were traced, could it not be shown that such value as it now possessed had been given it by its occupiers or their ancestors?
We may, therefore, infer that from very early times the wealthier classes had asserted themselves as the chiefoccupiers of the public domain.
At a meeting of owners andoccupiers of land, at Diss, a series of resolutions was proposed by the Rev.
At a meeting held on October 30th, at which the Bishop, the Mayor, and many of the principal owners and occupiers of estates were present, the petition was unanimously agreed to and signed.
A meeting of the owners and occupiers of lands and tenements in the hamlets of the city was held at the Guildhall, Norwich, under the presidency of Mr. J.
Resolutions in favour of the repeal of the Malt Tax were passed at a large meeting of the owners and occupiers of land in the Hundred of South Erpingham, held at the Black Boys Inn, Aylsham, under the presidency of Mr. Robert Marsham.
It was resolved to petition against such prohibition as likely to prove injurious to the owners and occupiers of land in Norfolk.
A meeting of the proprietors and occupiers of land was held at the Shirehouse, Norwich, "for the purpose of taking into consideration the present most truly alarming state of agriculture.
In order that the whole of the expense of the work should not fall upon occupiers it was arranged that half only be paid by them, and the other half by the owners of estates.
Pursuant to requisition signed by 540 occupiers of land, &c.
It appears that there are at the present time 'upwards of one hundred owners and occupiers of land in Great Britain who use sewage for the sake alone of what they can get out of it by agricultural means.
Let us tell her of the dangers and disasters that environ the hard-working, industrious occupiers of the territorial domains of the ancient nobility and gentry of her land (hear, hear.
He was at once a son of thunder and a son of consolation.
The two lower classes had, of course, much less intercourse with him than those more advanced.
Property Tax, so that “occupiers of land might not be taxed according to a fictitious assumption of profit,” and further objecting to it as applied to the ordinary profits of industry.
APRIL 9—Meeting of owners and occupiers of land, at the Bell Inn, Worcester, “to consider the propriety of petitioning Parliament on the ruinous state of the agricultural interest.
MAY 1—A meeting of the proprietors and occupiers of land in the county of Worcester, held at the Crown Inn, Broad Street; George Wigley Perrott, Esq.
LOCAL ACTS—For rating, to the relief of the poor, the owners instead of the occupiers of certain property in the parishes of Kingsnorton, Northfield, and Beoley.
The knots of the pine tree, split and made into small bundles, afforded the miserable occupiers of a small speck in the ocean sufficient light to guide them through the woods, in search of what was to serve them for next day's meal.
The pipes standing close to one another virtually made up the wall; but the exact method by which the warming was accomplished, without great inconvenience to the occupiers of the rooms, is not quite clear.
He held that the occupiers of land, and not the absentee landlords, were mainly chargeable with the neglect of their duties to the people in this trying crisis.
Because it was scarcely possible to find works in any electoral division of such universal benefit as would render them profitable or reproductive to all owners and occupiers in such divisions.
The vestry in an ancient parish consists of the ratepayers who are inhabitants of the parish or who, though not residents therein, are rated for the relief of the poor in respect of the parish, and of occupiers of hereditaments so rated.
In a hunting district such as this the owners and occupiers of the various country houses are usually enthusiastic devotees of the chase.
I was pleased to find, however, that the present occupierslook after the labouring classes; that what rabbits are killed on the manor are not sold, but distributed in the village.
But the owners and occupiers of most of the manors are content to rely on nature to supply them with game in due season.
Vincent was talking with the other occupiers of the table; a woman, at such times, is always the first to speak.
Now, in the boroughs, the power to vote was given to all resident occupiers of premises of L10 yearly value--so that all the shopkeeping class and the wealthier artisans got the franchise, but not the poorer inhabitants.
In Scotland, on the other hand, the rule was slightly more liberal than in England, as occupiers of L10 farms were given the franchise, instead of L50 being left as the limit.
That the present corn-law tends to check improvements in agriculture, produces uncertainty in all farming speculations, and holds out to the owners and occupiers of land prospects of special advantage which it fails to secure.
He would have accompanied that proposal with measures of relief to a considerable extent of the occupiers of land from the burdens to which they are subjected.
The franchise to be possessed by occupiersof tenements of the value of £25.
From the great change effected in the poor-laws, no class of men could eventually expect greater relief than the owners and occupiers of lands.
The first resolution, to impose a tax of sevenpence on every pound upon all incomes, except the incomes of occupiers of land, was put and carried without discussion.
The main feature of the bill was the extension of the franchise to all occupiers of land to the amount of £8 per annum, adopting the rating as the ultimate standard of value.
He further objected to the bill, because it taxed the occupiers of lands, and involved many difficulties of apportionment between his landlord and himself: it would be a constant source of litigation.
Another discussion also took place on the clause which allowed occupiers and owners to vote in vestries, the latter having accumulative votes proportioned to their property.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "occupiers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
