The Black Book: Or, Corruption Unmasked!, Volume 1J. Fairburn, 1820 - Great Britain |
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... incomes have increased from 20 to 30 per cent . within the last twenty years ; why not reduce them to their former amount ? The Board of Excise has offered to collect the customs at an expense of 5 instead of 13 per cent . which they ...
... incomes have increased from 20 to 30 per cent . within the last twenty years ; why not reduce them to their former amount ? The Board of Excise has offered to collect the customs at an expense of 5 instead of 13 per cent . which they ...
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... incomes being paid in fees , received by the deputy , who stipulates to pay a fixed annual sum to the principal . The total value of colonial sinecures , exclusive of those at the Cape of Good Hope , the Isle of France , and Malta , has ...
... incomes being paid in fees , received by the deputy , who stipulates to pay a fixed annual sum to the principal . The total value of colonial sinecures , exclusive of those at the Cape of Good Hope , the Isle of France , and Malta , has ...
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... income ; --- deduc- tions have been given in to the amount of £ 26,012 , making his net income £ 12,562 . - In a list of payments out of the droits of the crown and admiralty , we observe his lordship received two sums , one of £ 6000 ...
... income ; --- deduc- tions have been given in to the amount of £ 26,012 , making his net income £ 12,562 . - In a list of payments out of the droits of the crown and admiralty , we observe his lordship received two sums , one of £ 6000 ...
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... incomes , which would maintain about 80,000 working families , at the present rate of wages in Lancashire . Bathursts , namely , There are two more of the Bathurst , lieut . - col . James , lieut . - gov . of Virginia Islands lieut ...
... incomes , which would maintain about 80,000 working families , at the present rate of wages in Lancashire . Bathursts , namely , There are two more of the Bathurst , lieut . - col . James , lieut . - gov . of Virginia Islands lieut ...
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... income , as well as the incomes of four other of the royal dukes , was only £ 12,000 ; but in that year it was raised to £ 18,000 by the courtly , economical , and retrenching Whigs . On his marriage with the Princess of Hesse , £ 6000 ...
... income , as well as the incomes of four other of the royal dukes , was only £ 12,000 ; but in that year it was raised to £ 18,000 by the courtly , economical , and retrenching Whigs . On his marriage with the Princess of Hesse , £ 6000 ...
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Page 446 - That no person who has an office or place of profit under the King, or receives a pension from the Crown, shall be capable of serving as a Member of the House of Commons.
Page 384 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 276 - Because they .promise them both by their Sureties ; which promise, when they come to age, themselves are bound to perform.
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the Office and work of a Priest in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the Imposition of our hands. Whose sins thou dost forgive, they are forgiven; and whose sins thou dost retain, they are retained.
Page 279 - At the first establishment of parochial clergy the tithes of the parish were distributed in a fourfold division, — one for the use of the bishop, another for maintaining the fabric of the church, a third for the poor, and the fourth to provide for the incumbent.
Page 330 - They are not in trouble as other men ; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain ; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Page 113 - But when the reason of old establishments is gone, it is absurd to preserve nothing but the burthen of them. This is superstitiously to embalm a carcass not worth an ounce of the gums that are used to preserve it.
Page 394 - Duke of Cornwall and Rothsay, Earl of Chester and Carrick, Baron of Renfrew, Lord of the Isles, Great Steward of Scotland, High Steward of Plymouth, Colonel of the 10th Regiment of Dragoons, and Capt.-General of the Hon.
Page 114 - ... all courts, in all ages, JOBS, were still alive ; for whose sake alone it is that any trace of ancient grandeur is suffered to remain. These palaces are a true emblem of some governments ; the inhabitants are decayed, but the governors and magistrates still flourish. They put me in mind of Old...
Page 286 - Receive the Holy Ghost for the office and work of a Bishop in the Church of God, now committed unto thee by the imposition of our hands; In the Name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.