On nearing the bridge we came upon hosts of camels, donkeys, and oxen laden with produce, and being assessed for the octroi or town-tax.
In return, the Pedda Naik was allowed to cultivate a few fields rent free, and to levy a small octroi duty, or toll, on articles of Hindu consumption.
He also raised an additional income by farming out certain trades as monopolies, levying octroi duties on provisions, and taking fees for the registration of marriages, and sale of houses, boats, and slaves.
Jacques Bonhomme: Parisians, let us insist upon a reform of the octroi duties; let us demand that they be instantly brought down to the former rate.
All: Three cheers for charity; three cheers for philanthropy; and to-morrow we take the octroi by assault.
Jacques Bonhomme: Parisians, what I have told you to-day, I told you twenty years ago, when Peter set himself to work the octroi for his own profit and to your detriment.
It rests with them to replace the octroi on its ancient basis, and get quit of that fatal principle which was engrafted on it, and which still vegetates there like a parasitical fungus.
Does not common sense tell us that we must equalize the conditions by a protective octroi tariff?
But if the neighbouring communes had erected the octroi for their profit, what would have been the consequence?
The first human beings she saw on her way were the octroi officers at the gate.
The octroi officers perfectly well remembered seeing the Marchese Ludovico, who was well known to them by sight, drive through the gate very early that morning in a bagarino with a lady.
For the same man among the Octroi officers, who had recognized La Lalli when she had passed with Ludovico in the morning, was now able to say that the woman who now lay dead in the gateway was in truth no other than the poor Diva.
At this hour immense heat was rising from the pavement and from all the furnaces in the factories, setting alight a reflecting oven over the city and beyond the octroi wall.
In front of her on the other side of the octroi wall the bright heavens dazzled her, with the rising sun which rose higher and higher over the vast awaking city.
He was still working there, behind the octroi wall at the new hospital.
For ramparts they had octroi walls, and in place of the death-dealing defiance of 1792 they now showed only the spasmodic vehemence or ironical resignation of an over-cultivated stock.
In indirect taxation the salt tax had been reduced by 40%, the postal, railway and telegraph rates lowered, octroi duties and bridge and lock dues abolished.
To the left of the road near the octroi are Les Moulins olive-oil mills, with four stages of water-wheels.
Also the law of Frimaire 19, year VIII, with the addition of 2 decimes per franc to the octroi duties, established for the support of the asylums of the commune of Paris.
Save at the entrance of towns, and for the octroi the eye no longer encounters an official clerk.
Even on beverages, where the octroi is heavier, it remains, like all indirect taxes, nearly proportional and semi-optional.
It must be remembered that the sums realized by the octroi go in the main to the various communes.
It is only in Rome and Naples that the octroi is collected directly by the government, which pays over a certain proportion to the respective communes.
The inevitable conflict with the workings of the octroi interferes very seriously with the promptness and efficacy of this service, and in the summer of 1898 the complaints of the despoiled patrons were unusually loud and deep.
The octroiis stationed at every gate of exit, and at numerous posts within the enclosure.
In general, however, it spoke well of my choice of garb that I was rarely halted by the guardia as a possible vagrant nor yet by the officers of the octroi as a possessor of dutiable articles.
Ecclesiastics, soldiers, useless octroi guards, beggars rotten with the notion fostered by the omnivorous priesthood that mendicancy is an honorable profession, make up almost the bulk of her population of productive age.
At intervals of two or three hundred yards along the precipitous cliff that half circles the city stood the shelter of an octroi guard, built of anything that might deflect a ray of sunlight.
But when I hinted that the octroi might perhaps be abolished to advantage, he sprang to his feet crying almost in terror: "For los clavos de Cristo, senor!
This system of collecting octroi dues at the gates of principal towns lasted till recent days, having only been abolished by the British Government.
The guards at the gates were doubtless the officers entrusted with the collection of the octroi duties.
Had he stolen, or killed anybody, or tried to evade the octroi duty?
This octroi is farmed out and produces (they tell me) 120 pounds a day; there are some hundred toll-collecting posts at the outskirts of the town, and the average salary of their officials is three pounds a month.
To meet these obligations, the octroi prices have been raised to the highest pitch by the City Fathers.
There was a guardia di finanze here--a miserableoctroi official.
Amiens, and yet, God knows, wine is not too cheap, with the octroi of Amiens!
He decided that an octroiduty was out of date, that it was a survival of a financial policy that had been emphatically condemned.
Until 1886 there had existed an octroiduty on coal coming into the Metropolis, the proceeds of which were divided between the City and the Metropolitan Board of Works.
His speech to the deputation may be read with profit by any who care to see the arguments against such an octroi put tersely, forcibly and without reserve.
The octroi offices are demolished from top to bottom: they pull down the harbor offices and throw the scales and weights into the river.
As to the octroi system, it is bad beyond all conception.
The officers of the octroi rarely request a traveler to open his trunks, as they know very well he is not likely to transport mutton-chops, cheese, or wine, at the high rates charged for railway luggage.
When the trunks are ready for delivery you point out the pieces which the porter has gathered according to the numbers on them, and the formalities of the octroi begin.
The octroi is a continental institution, distinct from the custom-house, but greatly resembling it, whereby every article of food or drink entering a city pays a tax.
M499) The various dues, miksu, seem to have been a sort of octroi duty.
She had married a man employed in the Octroi service, who had died leaving her with two little girls.
The long journey from Paris was all but over, yet though I had been tired enough of the way, I felt as if I could brave it again, rather than make the exertion of encountering octroi officers, and plunging into strange hotels.
Towards the end of the war some of the French towns which had been sheltering large numbers of British troops raised the question of the payment of octroi duties on the goods consumed by the troops.
As I suppose is well known, French towns have local customs duties (called octroi because the right to collect them for local purposes was originally a concession from the King).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "octroi" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
