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impost
1. By what is called the impost 1692, a duty of five and-twenty per cent
2. Several of the other duties, too which were imposed either at the same time or subsequent to the old subsidy, what is called the additional duty, the new subsidy, the one-third and two-thirds subsidies, the impost 1692, the tonnage on wine, were allowed to be wholly drawn back upon exportation
3. All those duties, however, except the additional duty and impost 1692, being paid down in ready money upon importation, the interest of so large a sum occasioned an expense, which made it unreasonable to expect any profitable carrying trade in this article
4. Only a part, therefore of the duty called the impost on wine, and no part of the twenty-five pounds the ton upon French wines, or of the duties imposed in 1745, in 1763, and in 1778, were allowed to be drawn back upon exportation
5. Very expensivo when the impost is paid
6. The bands of armed militia were not to be seen, and when they passed through one small hamlet, the loud sounds coming from a tavern indicated that they were probably spending the day’s impost collections
7. After traversing a hundred paces, skirting a wall of the fifteenth century, surmounted by a pointed gable, with bricks set in contrast, he found himself before a large door of arched stone, with a rectilinear impost, in the sombre style of Louis XIV
8. Where is the impost duty which has supported the Government, and sunk to a considerable degree the national debt? The moment you prevent all importation, there is an utter extinction of impost revenue; and at home a physical inability to produce any from the people at large
9. It is acknowledged on all hands that there is not specie enough in the nation, if applied solely to that purpose, to pay our annual impost
10. The impost, until the adoption of the constitution of 1787, belonged to the respective States
11. The increase of the duty, a reliance upon the impost as the means of supporting the war, in connection with the abandonment of the internal taxes, affords an instructive practical lesson on the nature of our Government
12. Speaker, this increase of impost is a tax which, in my opinion, will operate unjustly and unequally
13. The same circumstances will enable it to lay an impost on one-third of our imported articles
14. a reliance on the impost as the means of supporting the war in connection with an abandonment of the internal taxes, teaches that our Government is unfit for the purpose of foreign and offensive war, 541;
15. this increase of impost is a tax which will operate unjustly and unequally, 542;
