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Download or read book LIVERY COMPANIES OF THE CITY O written by William Carew 1834-1913 Hazlitt and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-27 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Download or read book The Livery Companies of the City of London written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-07-20 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Livery Companies of the City of London: Their Origin, Character, Development, and Social, and Political Importance The Livery Companies of the City of London: Their Origin, Character, Development, and Social, and Political Importance was written by William Carew Hazlitt in 1892. This is a 704 page book, containing 273642 words and 285 pictures. Search Inside is enabled for this title. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Livery Companies of the City of London written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-17 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Livery Companies of the City of London: Their Origin, Character, Development, and Social, and Political Importance On the general community, has been met since 1884 by the corporate tax of five per cent., which assesses these bodies on a basis so calculated that they pay their quota to the revenue in the same manner as Ordinary individuals. Of course they were expressly entitled under their charters to hold in mort main; but when other modes of taxing them had become incompatible with our laws, and antagonistic to public opinion, it seemed desirable, no doubt, to devise some fresh expedient for disencumbering them, if only of a percentage of their incomes. The corporate tax yields the Exchequer many thousands a year. The plea, after all, can only apply to their corporate property, since their trust estates are purely eleemosynary; and the argument appears to possess all the less validity, that a fair proportion of the annual receipts pass to the members, and indirectly become liable to taxation, while, if it were not so, it is within the competence of the Companies at any time to dissolve themselves as regards their corporate possessions and divide the assets. Whether an equitable apportionment of the funds is made among the several grades is a question, again, for the Gilds themselves; but the complaint that extravagant amounts are voted to the Courts may be met by pointing out that the greater the output in this or any other direction the greater is the presumed gain to the imperial exchequer from normal property-tax. The Common Two other points deserve to be noticed. The. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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