His chief difficulty was to secure sufficient revenue to carry on the government.
The king was not to open the port until the inhabitants of Boston had given full satisfaction to the East India Company and to the revenue officers and others who had suffered by the recent outbreaks.
At Newport a revenue cutter was burned and at Providence a coat of tar and feathers was administered to a customs official.
In the words of Dewey, he endeavored "to collect the requisitions from the States, to create a national revenue and impost, and place the revenue on a specie basis.
Because of the resulting loss of revenue Andros was ordered to England, and during his absence the disaffection greatly increased.
The Bute Ministry planned to enforce the navigation acts, to tax the colonies directly, and to use the colonial revenue to support an army in America.
The customs were yielding little revenue while the colonial military establishment had become extremely expensive.
The numerous inlets and islands of Narragansett Bay made smuggling easy, and revenue vessels, though constantly on the alert, experienced great difficulty in detecting the illicit traders.
He admitted that parliament possessed legal authority to regulate the trade of the empire, but the recent attempts to raise a revenue he considered a most dangerous innovation.
The revenue derived from the Stamp Act was to be paid into the exchequer to be used for colonial defence.
I will explain all this to the young king; I will make him acquainted with this complicated and widely spread power; I will have the honor to make known to him my knowledge of the revenue and its uses.
I know already what is necessary, and as I have found amongst the papers of my father all the accounts of the states-general, you can understand that I know exactly what I receive as revenue and what I am to disburse.
One of the chief sources of national revenue during and since the war, the income tax, would not have been available.
One of the chief defects, perhaps the most vital defect of all, in the Confederation which carried through the Revolutionary War and preceded the Union, was its inability to raise revenue directly by taxation.
Within six months after the decision of the Supreme Court declaring the act unconstitutional was announced, another statute similar in purpose and effect was enacted as part of a Federal Revenue Act.
A statute of that year subjected the salaries of all civil officers of the United States to an income tax and was construed by the revenue officers as including the compensation of the President and the judges.
It is difficult to see how this objection is obviated by reënacting the act as a revenue measure.
After the Civil War broke out, however, the need of revenue became acute and various statutes taxing income without apportionment among the states were enacted by Congress.
On behalf of the revenue department it was urged that a general income tax, operating alike on all classes, did not involve any violation of the constitutional provision.
Thereupon Congress practically reënacted it, coupled with a provision for a prohibitive tax on the profits of concerns employing child labor, as part of a revenue act enacted under the constitutional grant of power to lay taxes.
Socialists look to the Budget as a means not only of raising revenue to meet unavoidable expenditure, but as an instrument for redressing inequalities in the distribution of wealth.
Two objectionable heads of revenue would find no place in a Socialist national balance-sheet--the profit from the Post Office and the stamp duties.
Under a just system of taxation all indirect taxation for revenue purposes would be abolished.
We peeped through the barrier, and saw some elaborate monuments in the chancel beyond; but the doors of the screen are kept locked, so that the vergers may raise a revenue by showing strangers through the richest part of the cathedral.
It has drawn a revenue from the pockets of the people, and transferred it from the government to the illicit trader.
Then there come in the war duties, and then the internal revenue taxes.
Hayes, in a special report upon the subject, proposes to draw some part of the revenue from the national bonds.
The Revenue Commission find the taxes on our manufactures and their materials an incubus upon the industry and a check to the progress of the country, and recommend their remission.
Look at the report of the Revenue Commission,[F] which tells us that most of the duties are duplicated, till they lap over like shingles and slates, and come to ten or twenty per cent on manufactures.
The Revenue Commission enlighten us on this point.
He schemed through Windebank to have himself made governor of Virginia, promising to wring out of it eight thousand pounds more of revenue for the king from some neglected sources.
But it was only irregularly and intermittently that the Government could be brought to grant indulgences that roused the pious wrath of Puritans and reduced the revenue of the king and his favorites.
It is said that James derived a revenue of thirty-six thousand pounds a year from the fines of lay Catholics.
Armed with authority from the Shah himself, granted prior to the great outbreak, Meerza Ahmed was raising revenue in the name of the local government, and expending the money thus collected on the maintenance of the war.
They had always been a refractory people—unwilling to pay revenue either to Barukzye chief or Suddozye Prince.
It appeared expedient, therefore, to Nott, to cause a proclamation to be issued, cautioning the inhabitants against paying revenue to the Meerza.
Some days before their arrival at Mookoor, Shumshoodeen Khan had moved out of Ghuznee with a party of 500 horse and two guns, to collect revenue in the adjacent country.
To this Nott replied that, as a matter of course, he intended the proclamation regarding the revenue to be issued in the name of the Prince.
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He retired six years ago to enter politics, and is now a deputy Internal Revenue collector.
I have more to say than merely to point out the large revenue which newspapers receive from patent medicines, and let inference do the rest.
Houghton derives his income from his salary as Deputy Internal Revenue Collector, his business being to collect Uncle Sam's liquor tax.
That the late managers of the revenue have not duly passed their accounts,[11] for a great part of thirty-five millions, and ought not to be trusted in such employments any more.
Expenditure was growing, revenue was not forthcoming.
Acting under Manchu guidance, chiefs and leading tribesmen were entrusted with important executive offices; they had to keep the peace among their people, and to collect the revenue of local produce to be forwarded to Peking.
The manifest and habitual policy of our government, is to derive its revenue indirectly through the custom house, instead of seeking it in direct taxation.
Apply thatrevenue to the augmentation of your navy.
It saw in the encouragement of its use, an income of revenue and a source of profit far greater than that received from any other product.
Fairholt has well said, that "the revenue brought to our present Sovereign Lady from this source alone is greater than that Queen Elizabeth received from the entire customs of the country.
They saw in its use by the Indians a custom which, if engrafted upon the civilization of the Old World, would prove a source of revenue commensurate with their wildest visions of power and wealth.
In 1753, the King of Portugal farmed out the tobacco trade, and from that time until now, the annual amount received has been one of the principal sources of revenue to the crown.
As soon as its cultivation became general in Spain and Portugal the tobacco trade was "farmed out," bringing an enormous revenue to those kingdoms.
Captain Green of the revenue cutter, Lieutenant Powell and General Smith, who were ashore, jumped in and brought him out alive but nearly exhausted.
On the morning of the 9th, an Indian prisoner was brought to Fort Brooke by one of the Revenue Cutters.
When the revenue officers came to him with the request that he defend their case, he at once resigned his office, and this being known the merchants immediately sought his services as counsel to uphold their protest against the Writs.
The colonies were not at all unwilling to pay revenue to the home government, if the manner of payment was just and right.
The English Ministry was already preparing a scheme for the raising of revenue in America: The question of the right of taxation suddenly obtruded itself.
In the summer of 1769 he attacked some of the revenue officers in an article in "The Boston Gazette.
A portion of the revenue that supports this institution comes from the sale of chocolate, made first to her liking by her chef, and made after his rule ever since.
By daylight we counted eleven ships and two revenue cutters lying under the lee of the island.
WATER AT $10 A QUART Another source of revenue to Clarke is the water used in initiations.
A condition of affairs now exists in some of the states of the Union rendering life and property insecure and the carrying of the mails and the collection of revenue dangerous," his message said.
But this position was probably qualified and counterbalanced in his mind by the President's direct promise that he would collect the Federal revenue and protect the Federal property.
The revenue still continues to be collected as heretofore at the custom-house in Charleston, and should the collector unfortunately resign, a successor may be appointed to perform this duty.
He will enforce the collection of duties, not by navy, but by a revenue cutter, as our collector now would do if his authority was resisted.
Therefore, it will be incumbent on the chief magistrate to proceed to collect the revenue of ships entering their ports precisely in the same way and to the same extent that he does now in every other State of the Union.
The government's past economic diversification efforts have moderated the severity of the downturn but failed to offset oil and gas revenue losses.
Besides the French space center at Kourou, fishing and forestry are the most important economic activities, with exports of fish and fish products (mostly shrimp) accounting for about two-thirds of total revenue in 1985.
The principal sources of revenue come from sales of copra, postage stamps, souvenir coins, and handicrafts.
The major sources of revenue are the sale of postage stamps to collectors and the sale of handicrafts to passing ships.
Probably the revenue of the theatres would not diminish sensibly, but the expenses would.
This causes the net revenue curve, also, to vary much more than in proportion to the volume of traffic, in consequence.
This is best measured, of course, by revenue per ton mile, chap.
The nature of the traffic handled by a carrier is the most important consideration to be kept in mind in interpreting revenue per ton mile data.
Whatever surplus revenue resulted from it aided the local tariffs, including those at X, in supporting the burden of fixed expenses.
All that is necessary in order to compute the average revenue per ton mile, then, is to know the total freight revenue and the amount of ton mileage service.
Two-thirds of the entire increment of revenuegoes to profit.
One thousand dollars revenue would therefore become available under the new conditions, to pay the same fixed charges as well as constant operating costs.
And, finally, a practical elimination of the rebate and the cessation of general rate wars has usually resulted in a very substantial increase in the revenue of the carriers as well as in the scale of charges imposed upon most shippers.
Assume the total revenue from a given business to be $100, and assume it to be distributed as before, viz.
For ton-mile revenue is but the ratio of the abscissa to the ordinate of the curve at any given point; the former being the rate charged, the latter the distance.
Entirely irrespective of any change in the level of rates, revenue per ton mile is affected fundamentally by three distinct sets of conditions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "revenue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
