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Who, I say again, was the fool that knows not that there are no letters patent of nobility that confer such privileges or exemptions as a knight-errant acquires the day he is dubbed a knight, and devotes himself to the arduous calling of chivalry? What knight-errant ever paid poll-tax, duty, queen's pin-money, king's dues, toll or ferry? What tailor ever took payment of him for making his clothes?
A poll-tax, customs and excise duties, mining royalties and fines and fees make up the rest of the revenue, which in 1884 amounted to $237,752 and in 1885 to $315,264. The expenditure for the same years is given by Vice-Consul CADELL as $234,161 and $321,264, respectively.
"I staid," he writes, "three days at Laodicea, three again at Apamca, and as many at Synnas, and heard nothing except complaints that they could not pay the poll-tax imposed upon them, that every one's property was sold; heard, I say, nothing but complaints and groans, and monstrous deeds which seemed to suit not a man but some horrid wild beast.
No Jew had been allowed to live in Alexandria or any other city without paying a poll-tax, for leave to worship his God according to the manner of his forefathers; but religious zeal is stronger than the love of money; the Jews were driven out, and the tax lost to the city.
Have you a horse? 'Yes, but he's over age he can't be taxed. 'Any cows? 'Just two heifers they're too young. 'Any money on deposit? 'Lord, no! 'Then there's only the poll-tax? I suggested. 'Bless you, he's seventy-six years old there ain't no poll-tax! she rejoined. And the long and short of it was that they weren't taxable for a single thing!" Austin laughed.
Think of that, will you? Why, we might have paganism raging all over this country, and we couldn't get a cent out of them. I'd a put that Indian under 'graven images, only they ain't mentioned, either. I s'pose I could tax the bundle of wooden cigars in his fist as 'tobacco, but that leaves out the rest of the figure; and he's not liable to poll-tax because he can't even vote.
"I wish she would have done with throwing away our money in diamonds at that rate," said Randolphe, gloomily. "The people will not love her if she does. We all know it is what we pay for this cursed salt, and our poll-tax, and all our grinding taxes, that go to pay for such freaks as these." "Well, love," said his wife, "she is young, and may learn. Don't let us be grudging to her as a stranger."
During the three days at Laodicea, three at Apamea, and three at Synnada, I heard of nothing but the actual inability of the people to pay the poll-tax; everywhere they have been sold up; the towns were filled with groans and lamentations. They have been ravaged rather by a wild beast than by a man. They are tired of life itself.
Poll-tax, exemptions from, made by Louis XVI.. Popularity of Marie Antoinette, increasing. Prince Charles of Lorraine, death of; de Conti; de Lichtenstein sent as envoy from Austria; Ferdinand of Brunswick; Kaunitz; Cardinal Louis de Rohan. Princess Adelaide; Clotilde; de Guimenée; de Lamballe; Joséphine Louise of Savoy; of Lorraine; Sophie of France; of Teschen; Victoire. Private theatricals.
This is the theory of Russian taxation; but against its actual carrying out in fact, is opposed the old difficulty, that from him who has nothing, nothing can possibly be extracted; and as the poor serfs have no more means of paying taxes than the hogs and cattle their fellow-slaves, a considerate paternal government drops its theory, and makes the landowner pay the poll-tax for the slaves he possesses, much as an English gentleman pays taxes for his horses and dogs, horses and dogs being as little able to pay tax themselves as the Russian serf.
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