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It would mightily advance the cause, and make direct taxation greatly more popular, were it carried into effect by a small centage on property, rather than by a centage twenty times larger on income — in other words were the tax on property alone, and not at all on income.
Source: wiktionary
If he was entitled to centage at all upon the execution, he could have it only on the value of the property levied on, if the property was not sold, and the amount of the sale if the property was sold, and was not entitled to centage on the whole amount of the execution, if it exceeded the value of the property levied on.
Source: wiktionary
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