Railway Reform: Its Importance and Practicability Considered as Affecting the Nation, the Shareholders, and the Government |
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Page 291 - 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.