 His whole property is then immediately taxed from two to ten per cent. Besides the probate, large fees are demanded for burying him in the chancel ; his virtues are handed down to posterity on taxed marble ; and he...  Smugglers and Smuggling - Page 71by Alpheus Hyatt Verrill - 1924 - 327 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Rufus Claggett - 1855 - 208 pages
...per cent. — flings himself back | upon his chintz bed | which has paid twenty -two per cent. — makes his will | on an eight pound stamp, and expires | in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds | for the privilege | of putting him to death. His whole property | is... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1855 - 966 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid 22 per cent. — making his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a licence of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Joseph Gales - United States - 1824 - 872 pages
...which has paid 7 per cent., into a spoon ' which has paid 15 per cent., makes his will on ' an £8 stamp, and expires in the arms of an ' apothecary, who has paid the license of an £100 • for the privilege of putting him to death. His ' whole property is then... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 812 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two JKT cent. ; makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1856 - 880 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent. ; makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...himself back upon his chintz-bed, which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Edmund Fillingham King - 1859 - 360 pages
...back upon his chintz bed, which has paid twenty two per cent. — makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of an hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Henry Charles Carey - Economics - 1859 - 542 pages
...himself back upon the chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary, who has paid a license of a hundred pounds, for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1863 - 522 pages
...chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., makes his will on a stamp that has paid eight pounds, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid one hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is then taxed from two to ten per cent,... | |
 | Arbitration (International law) - 1863 - 638 pages
...himself back upon his chintz bed which has paid twenty-two per cent., ma"kes his will on an eight-pound stamp, and expires in the arms of an apothecary who has paid a license of a hundred pounds for the privilege of putting him to death. His whole property is immediately... | |
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