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Page 152
... TAXES UNDERESTIMATED The agents in London seem not to have understood the alarm against the proposed stamp tax which was accumulating at home , and which was incorporated in many of the protests against the Sugar Act . Nor was ...
... TAXES UNDERESTIMATED The agents in London seem not to have understood the alarm against the proposed stamp tax which was accumulating at home , and which was incorporated in many of the protests against the Sugar Act . Nor was ...
Page 559
... taxes from their people . In April , 1863 , other taxes , without intermediation of the states , were laid on property , occupations , in- come , profits , together with a tax in kind of one tenth of agricultural produce . Everybody ...
... taxes from their people . In April , 1863 , other taxes , without intermediation of the states , were laid on property , occupations , in- come , profits , together with a tax in kind of one tenth of agricultural produce . Everybody ...
Page 906
... taxes and other favorable treatment , the net gains of corporations prom- ised to be larger than ever in the first full year of peace . Naturally , the greatest profit increases accrued to those corporations making muni- tions and other ...
... taxes and other favorable treatment , the net gains of corporations prom- ised to be larger than ever in the first full year of peace . Naturally , the greatest profit increases accrued to those corporations making muni- tions and other ...
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Chapter Page 1 The New World | 3 |
Beginnings in the South | 29 |
The New England Colonies | 60 |
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