Mr Lawson's plan was: If four-fifths of the ratepayers of any district were agreed that no spirituous liquors should be sold there, that such should become a law, and no licence for their sale should be issued.
It is because four-fifths of the ratepayers declare that I shall have no drink nearer than the next parish; and this reminds of another weak point in the plan.
The ratepayers might grumble, but it would be difficult in the extreme to dislodge him, for he would be removed from their direct control, and the Council would consider it ungracious to get rid of an "old servant.
The extreme temperance section argue that even such Licensing Boards--directly elected by the ratepayers for the specific purpose--would not meet the requirements of the case, and that nothing short of a popular vote can be accepted.
The Board also pointed out--"the great loss entailed upon the ratepayers by the obligation which the Board was under to provide for the accommodation in suitable dwellings in the same area of at least as many persons as were displaced.
This the Metropolitan Board felt to be an injustice to the ratepayers upon whom the charge fell, and an encouragement to owners of houses occupied by poor people to allow them to fall into or remain in a dilapidated condition.
Included in that chaos were two Boards with great powers of taxation over which the ratepayers had no control.
The ratepayers take no interest in the elections in our parish.
The great bulk of the purchase money was to be provided by the ratepayers of London, and the great bulk of the debt to be a charge on the rateable property of London.
Men may become ratepayers and taxpayers, or cease to beratepayers and taxpayers.
Fortunately the population of Birmingham is going ahead rapidly, and the more the children multiply the more "heads of families" we may naturally hope there will be noted down as ratepayers by the heads of the gather-the-tin office.
Wherever it is neglected, let ratepayerstake up the cry, and bombard not their street lamps, but their District Boards.
Let the ratepayers effectually second the efforts being made by the Chinese government to abolish the use of opium throughout the empire.
As friends of China, might not the ratepayers give their appeals a courteous consideration?
According to his statement the proportion of white rate or tax payers to the white population of Malden was in the ratio of one to three and one-third; that of the colored ratepayers of the town to the colored population, one to eleven.
At Windsor it appears that the proportion of ratepayers among the whites was as one to seven and one-fourth, and among the blacks it was as one to five.
In Chatham the white ratepayers were "about one to every three and one-half of the white population, and the colored about one to every thirteen of the colored population.
A Paper read at a Meeting of the Kensington Ratepayers Association, held at S.
Thousands of ratepayerswere there, and when Crooks walked through their ranks to the little portable rostrum he had one of the great receptions of his life.
If the men had more money they would be able to get better house accommodation, and the ratepayers would be saved the substantial sums now paid under the Poor Law for medical orders for people brought up in over-crowded homes.
At the time of Crooks's election the dissatisfaction felt by ratepayers with the old Guardians was deep and bitter.
For every ton of oakum picked in the workhouse the ratepayers were involved in an expenditure of L10.
Presently a Municipal Alliance was formed, and though it could do nothing against Crooks at the poll, since the ratepayers would persist in placing him at the top, it found other methods of attacking him, of which more hereafter.
But remember we had a free gift of L1,000 from Mr. Hills, which more than met the extra expense, so that the ratepayers lost nothing.
Under that act a vestry elected by the ratepayers of the parish was established for each parish in the metropolis outside the City.
They are revised by statutory assessment committees, who hear any objections by ratepayers against their valuation.
In this way Irish ratepayers might be relieved of the obnoxious "vestry cess," a species of Church rate, at the expense of the clergy.
Of every hundred pounds paid by the ratepayers how much is absorbed in the maintenance of the institution and its ramifications, and how very little reaches poor deserving Hodge!
Where an urban council are the council of a borough, and in other cases with the consent of the owners and ratepayers of the district, they may provide market accommodation for their district.
The Municipal Corporations Act followed in 1835, giving all ratepayers the local franchise.
If the scheme is opposed by the prescribed proportion (one-twentieth) of the owners and ratepayers of the proposed new borough, it has to be confirmed by parliament.
This meant, of course, so much money of the ratepayersto be turned over to local contractors.
Liverpool has thus been most fortunate in possessing a public library, a museum, and an art gallery, which have cost the ratepayers nothing.
It would have been a wise policy if our City Fathers had set apart a sanctuary for better-class houses, from which tramways were excluded, and thus avoid driving so many large ratepayers to the Cheshire side to find a home.
The poor rates might thus be enormously increased and those ratepayers not employing labourers might be crushed.
When the ratepayers began to assert themselves the pauper element broke out in open riot and incendiarism.
You cannot have it till the risk has been run, till the ratepayers have been created.
A very inconsiderable section of the people really want the Free Library; the question at the polls is generally treated with apathy, and only a very small proportion of the ratepayers record their votes one way or the other.
It would improve the soil, and return the ratepayers a large interest for the capital expended.
Sometimes the presentments for the public works were very large--far beyond the entire rental of the barony; yet they may not have been too great to meet the starvation which the assembled ratepayers saw everywhere around them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ratepayers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
