Transactions, Том 18

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Сторінка 294 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Сторінка 311 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Сторінка 301 - Taxation of every Inhabitant, Parson, Vicar, and other, and of every Occupier of Lands, Houses, Tithes Impropriate, Propriations of Tithes, Coal Mines or saleable Underwoods in the said Parish...
Сторінка 294 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute " towards the support of the government, as nearly as " possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, " in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy " under the protection of the state.
Сторінка 359 - Commerce and manufactures can seldom flourish long in any state which does not enjoy a regular administration of justice, in which the people do not feel themselves secure in the possession of their property, in which the faith of contracts is not supported by law, and in which the authority of the state is not supposed to be regularly employed in enforcing the payment of debts from all those who are able to pay. Commerce and manufactures, in short, can seldom flourish in any state in which there...
Сторінка 301 - ... a convenient stock of flax, hemp, wool, thread, iron, and other ware and stuff to set the poor on work. And also competent sums of money for and towards the necessary relief of the lame, impotent, old, blind, and such other among them being poor and not able to work, and also for the putting out...
Сторінка 40 - The compensation to be exclusive of stamps and paper or parchment or map or plan, which are to be paid for by the tenant.
Сторінка 350 - Credits" shall mean and include every claim and demand for money or other valuable thing, and every annuity or sum of money receivable at stated periods, due or to become due, and all claims and demands secured by deed or mortgage, due or to become due.
Сторінка 302 - ... it shall not be lawful for the overseers of any parish, township, or village, to tax any inhabitant thereof, as such inhabitant, in respect of his ability derived from the profits of stock in trade or any other property, for or towards the relief of the poor...
Сторінка 194 - Colchester could not, except at spring tides, go up to the town in one tide. To say, then, that the river ceased to be navigable, ceased to be a highway, at the ebb or other states of the tide when such vessels could not float, is in effect to say that, except for a short portion of every month, they should not use the river at all for the purpose of trading with Colchester. It is more reasonable to hold that the term "navigable...

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