The law of 1898 made important modifications in these ratesand manner of assessing.
When it is considered that for the five independent valuations for raising rates on property there are in England and Wales more than one thousand valuation authorities, the hopelessness of obtaining uniformity is apparent.
The degrees of relationship were the same, the rates were copied from those of the earlier act, and the same exemption of property passing between husband and wife was admitted.
The history is of high importance, because the basis of the poor rate was adopted as the basis for all other rates levied in local taxation.
Four different ratesof advance may be given to the stylus, corresponding to as many different angles of advance that may, by appropriate mechanism, be given to the screw.
It now became necessary to define more specifically the persons liable for this rate, but the law framed no system by which assessments were to be made or rates collected.
In general, however, we find that in unions contiguous to one another, the ratesdo not vary in amount to any great extent.
In the Central District, which is situated in an intermediate position, the ratesrange from 1s.
The City of London is situated between the unions of East London and West London: in the two latter the rates are not very unequal, being about 2s.
It is somewhat difficult to avoid a feeling of exasperation when, as an honest man, and one who finds it at times a sore pinch to pay rates and taxes, one contemplates the ugly, hopeless picture.
Again, Bethnal Green does not contribute so much as Islington, and yet its poor-rates are four times as high.
Practically, the three hundred and fifty thousand little paupers that cumber the poor-rates are without the category of neglected ones.
So far as practicable, the ratesof taxation should be in the form of specific duties, and not ad valorem, requiring the judgment of experienced men to ascertain values and exposing the revenue to the temptation of fraud.
The Government has derived great benefit from it in the progress thus far made in refunding the public debt at low rates of interest.
An important reduction of the present rates of cable communication with Europe, felt to be too burdensome to the interests of our commerce, must necessarily flow from the establishment of this competing line.
Under this section it is obvious that no additional banks will hereafter be organized, except possibly in a few cities or localities where the prevailing rates of interest in ordinary business are extremely low.
The progress made during the last year in refunding the public debt at lower rates of interest is very gratifying.
With the exception of San Francisco, nowhere else can fruit of such choice character be found in so great variety and at such cheap rates as in Melbourne.
The high rates of passage and the price charged for land in these colonies have together acted as prohibitory measures to new settlers going thither.
The exaggerated rates of wages were consequently reduced, inflated prices for all articles of consumption fell gradually to a reasonable figure, and affairs generally returned to their normal condition.
The speculative nature of nearly all kinds of business in the colonies impairs general confidence, and people come to be unduly sharp, requiring even heavier rates than those already named where there is any chance of getting them.
Statistics exhibiting the death-rates of the several colonies were a surprise to us, showing that Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania were healthier even than London, which is well known to be remarkable in this respect.
On the other hand, when objectives, or marks used as aiming points, are very indistinct, the requirement of correct aiming imposes rates of fire somewhat lower than the standard rates given even for well-instructed men.
Fatigue and exhaustion, the results of marches or prolonged firing, have a detrimental influence and tend to lower the rates of effective fire.
The rates given should not exclude higher rates of fire in the case of large and conspicuous targets.
That these forms of energy differ only in their rates of vibration.
In a beam of white light several rates of wave vibrations exist side by side.
So cheaply is current thus produced that the Company is in a position to supply it at rates which appear small compared with those that prevail in this country.
They charged that goods had been sold to the American settlers at cheaper rates than to British subjects; that Dr.
As president of the Corn Belt Road and as controlling director in the North Lake Line, he got rates on other railroads for his grain products that no competitor could duplicate.
What had made the discovery all the more painful was that they were spending, at American prices, money which they had earned at home rates of wages--and so were really being cheated by the world!
An office for insuring at moderate rates the property carried, will be kept at Cincinnati, Limestone, (i.
Passengers supplied with provisions and liquors, of first quality, at most reasonable rates possible.
The worst depredation committed on the Manóbo consisted of the advancing of merchandise at exorbitant rates just before harvest time with a view to purchasing rice and tobacco.
But it was not only in the exorbitant rates charged and in the unspeakably low prices paid for objects of merchandise that the Christian trader swindled his pagan fellow men.
There is such an inordinate desire for salt, especially the rock salt made out of salt water and ash lye, that the Manóbo will submit sometimes to tyranny and to the most exorbitant rates in order to obtain it.
Much dissatisfaction was produced after the Union, in consequence of English and Irish vessels being charged with double ratesas foreigners.
The consequence was, that the mercantile rates of insurance gradually rose from about 8s.
The Secretary of State in order to establish the new ratio sold "Reverse Councils" at rates from 2s.
The Royal Pavilion Hotel on low ground near the docks is strictly first-class and its rates prove more moderate than we found at its competitors on the cliff.
The price for all this magnificence is quite low, for St. Quentin is in no sense a tourist town and hotelrates have not yet been adjusted for the infrequent motorist.
He made a vigorous protest without appreciable effect on the suave clerk, who assured us that the rates of the Continental were quite like the laws of the Medes and the Persians.
We have reason to congratulate ourselves, for the wayside inn is really preferable to the Angleterre at Rouen and the rates are scarcely half so much.
Our hotel, the Grand Aignan, is rather old-fashioned and somewhat dingy, but it is clean and comfortable and its rates are not exorbitant.
There is a deal of dickering before we get settled, for the rates are unreasonably high; but after considerable parley a bargain is made.
We are able to offer the same low rates this year, and all arrangements are completed with our connecting lines to give live-stock trains carrying trail cattle a passenger schedule.
From that time onward we possessed a sort of artificial sense organ for their appreciation,--an electric arrangement which can virtually "see" these intermediaterates of vibration.
Fall not a tear, I say; one of themrates All that is won and lost.
With Mars fall out, with Juno chide, That thy adulteries Ratesand revenges.
Thus E rates plus 4 PE in relation to college graduates in first-rate professional schools, ranking with the best minds revealed in any group so far tested.
E, therefore, surelyrates at least in the top one quarter of one per cent of college graduates.
He cut down the rates of postage, advertised unclaimed letters, and showed his rare executive ability and tireless energy.
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