Jizyah, or capitation-tax, and to become tributaries, enjoying almost all the privileges of Moslems. ❋ Unknown (2006)
One of the worst curses of France was the taille or capitation-tax, and the way in which it was levied and assessed. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The Sherif tolerated them, but levied a capitation-tax on each. ❋ Unknown (2003)
As its pilgrims are known to be sectaries, they are exposed to great extortions on the road: Saoud exacted a heavy capitation-tax from them, as did Sherif Ghaleb at Mekka, amounting in latter times to thirty sequins per head. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Some of them, in addition to these general sources of income, had extorted from former chief Sherifs lucrative sinecures, such as duties on ships, or on certain articles of merchandize; tolls collected at one of the gates of Djidda; the capitation-tax levied upon the Persian pilgrims, &c. &c. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"Fighting against the infidels who do not become converts to Islam, and do not pay the capitation-tax, is incumbent, though they do not attack first." ❋ Moulavi Ger��gh Ali (N/A)
In this theory of waging war with, and exacting tribute or the capitation-tax from, the non-Moslem world, they quote the 9th and other Suras. ❋ Moulavi Ger��gh Ali (N/A)
When these resources became exhausted, a capitation-tax was laid, followed by an assessment of one tenth, and the adulteration of the currency. ❋ Various (N/A)
A poll or capitation-tax of not less than fifty cents, nor more than a dollar, may, in case of necessity, be laid upon every voter under sixty years of age. ❋ Andrew W. Young (N/A)
Christian population was subjected to heavy imposts, the principal being the _haratch_, or capitation-tax, paid to the imperial treasury, and the tithe on agricultural produce, which was collected by the feudal lord. ❋ Various (N/A)
After the first fury of conquest had subsided, the Christians who remained in their homes were permitted to live unmolested, on payment of the capitation-tax; but peculiar privileges were accorded to the Jews, and the hold of the Moslems on the country was strengthened by the vast influx of settlers, not only from Africa, but from Syria and Arabia, who were attracted by the reports of the riches and fertility of the new province. ❋ Various (N/A)
The principal were, a land-tax amounting to one-tenth of the produce of the soil and the mines, the capitation-tax paid by the Jews and Christians, and the fifth of the spoil taken from the enemy -- an enormously productive item in a time of constant warfare -- besides a duty of two and a half per cent on all exports and imports. ❋ Various (N/A)
The paralysing land-tax, collected in kind by irresponsible middlemen, was an inheritance from the Romaic Empire, and though it was now reinforced by the special capitation-tax levied by the sultan on his ❋ Nevill Forbes (1906)
In the first case, the reduction is insufficient for agriculture and the poor; in the second, the capitation-tax still exists, in its enormous disproportion. ❋ Unknown (1888)
Now, the tax on letters is necessarily personal; therefore it is a capitation-tax; therefore, that which is equity in this respect being iniquity from another standpoint, an equilibrium of burdens is impossible. ❋ Unknown (1888)
The Boston Pope of by-and-by will draw his dollar-a-head capitation-tax from 300,000,000 of the human race, and the Annex and the rest of his book-shop will fetch in double as much more; and his ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
The Boston Pope of by-and-by will draw his dollar-a-head capitation-tax from three hundred millions of the human race, and the Annex and the rest of his book-shop stock will fetch in as much more; and his Metaphysical Colleges, the annual Pilgrimage to Mrs. Eddy's tomb, from all over the world-admission, the Christian-Science ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
He was earnestly opposed to "a capitation-tax," and declared such levies as an income-tax to be "unavoidably hurtful to industry." ❋ James Gillespie Blaine (1861)
Necker, "is that very ancient, and much too large amounts, of their capitation-tax remain unpaid." ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)
"In the provinces," says Turgot, "the capitation-tax of the privileged classes has been successively reduced to an exceedingly small matter, whilst the capitation-tax of those who are liable to the taille is almost equal to the aggregate of that tax." ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)
