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Page 66
... Estimated Amount . £ 2,000 Silk Manufactures Spirits 162,985 482,286 1846 Tallow 101,966 Woollen Manufactures 27,970 ... estimated amount of £ 416,562 , and not an estimated loss of Revenue , as is the case in the other reductions of ...
... Estimated Amount . £ 2,000 Silk Manufactures Spirits 162,985 482,286 1846 Tallow 101,966 Woollen Manufactures 27,970 ... estimated amount of £ 416,562 , and not an estimated loss of Revenue , as is the case in the other reductions of ...
Page 67
... Estimated Amount . £ 16,383 Customs Butter and Cheese 106,535 Excise ( Spirits ) 590,000 Sugar and Molasses 78,793 Stamps ... estimate for the first year was £ 500,000 . YBS . 1858 AMOUNT OF TAXES REPAIRED or REDUCED , TAXATION AS IT IS . 67.
... Estimated Amount . £ 16,383 Customs Butter and Cheese 106,535 Excise ( Spirits ) 590,000 Sugar and Molasses 78,793 Stamps ... estimate for the first year was £ 500,000 . YBS . 1858 AMOUNT OF TAXES REPAIRED or REDUCED , TAXATION AS IT IS . 67.
Page 68
... Estimated Estimated Amount . Amount . £ £ Taxes : - Customs : - Property and Income Tax 2,100,000 Spirits , Colonial , consumed in Ireland 9,080 Excise : - Spirits 280,000 Stamps : - Draft Stamps 113,000 Probate Court Stamps 53,000 ...
... Estimated Estimated Amount . Amount . £ £ Taxes : - Customs : - Property and Income Tax 2,100,000 Spirits , Colonial , consumed in Ireland 9,080 Excise : - Spirits 280,000 Stamps : - Draft Stamps 113,000 Probate Court Stamps 53,000 ...
Page 78
... Estimates , page 22 ) 910,799 Superannuation Allowances , etc. ( Finance Ac- counts , page 19 ) 170,979 Ditto , ditto , for Coast - Guard and Revenue Cruisers Service . ( Ditto , ditto ) 57,587 Ditto , ditto , for Colonies . ( Ditto ...
... Estimates , page 22 ) 910,799 Superannuation Allowances , etc. ( Finance Ac- counts , page 19 ) 170,979 Ditto , ditto , for Coast - Guard and Revenue Cruisers Service . ( Ditto , ditto ) 57,587 Ditto , ditto , for Colonies . ( Ditto ...
Page 79
... Estimate for the different branches of the Inland Revenue , nor can there be , the same person being , in many cases , employed in the collection of every branch . The expenditure is ac- counted for in the Finance Accounts annually laid ...
... Estimate for the different branches of the Inland Revenue , nor can there be , the same person being , in many cases , employed in the collection of every branch . The expenditure is ac- counted for in the Finance Accounts annually laid ...
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Page 574 - 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.
Page 574 - Every tax ought to be levied at the time, or in the manner in which it is most likely to be convenient for the contributor to pay it. ... (4) 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.
Page 2 - The annual labour of every nation is the fund which originally supplies it with all the necessaries and conveniences of life which it annually consumes, and which consist always either in the immediate produce of that labour, or in what is purchased with that produce from other nations.
Page 527 - They sup in our cup. They dip in our dish. They sit by our fire. We find them in the dye-fat, wash-bowl, and powdering tub. They share with the butler in his box. They have marked and sealed us from head to foot.
Page 234 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 213 - Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls.
Page 518 - Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher.
Page 503 - Swarms of new-born flies are trying their pinions in the air. Their sportive motions, their wanton mazes, their gratuitous activity, their continual change of place without use or purpose, testify their joy, and the exultation which they feel in their lately discovered faculties.
Page 186 - Enter ye in at the strait gate ; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way that leadeth to destruction, and many there be that go in thereat : because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to life, and few there be that find it.
Page 512 - I have been young, and now am old : and yet saw I never the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging their bread.