land-revenue

The problem of raising a revenue without customs duties is solved by a stamp-tax, land-revenue, and (by far the most important), the sale of the monopolies of the preparation and retailing of opium for smoking, and of spirits and other excisable commodities, these monopolies being “farmed” to private individuals, mostly Chinamen.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

Akbar's great minister, Todar Mal, who first introduced an assessment of the land-revenue based on the measurement and survey of the land, is said to have been an Agarwala.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Francis said that the seizures for non-payment of the land-revenue were notorious, and that he held in his hand two advertisements, one of which announced the sale of seventeen, and the other of forty-two villages.

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria Edward Farr

The land-revenue distribution was made imperative by the fact that various American States and municipalities owed

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

The problem of raising a revenue without customs duties is solved by a stamp-tax, land-revenue, and (by far the most important), the sale of the monopolies of the preparation and retailing of opium for smoking, and of spirits and other excisable commodities, these monopolies being "farmed" to private individuals, mostly Chinamen.

The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither Isabella Lucy 1883

This system, injurious alike to the sovereign, the troops, and the people, is becoming every season more and more common in Oude; and must, in a few years, embrace nearly the whole of the land-revenue of the country.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

The members of such a Board as I propose, invested with full powers, and secured in office under our guarantee during good conduct, would go fearlessly to work; they would divide the labour; one would have the settlement of the land-revenue, with the charge of the police; the second would have the judicial Courts; and if the

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

The half made over to the British Government has been ever since yielding more revenue to us, while that retained by the sovereign of Oude has been yielding less and less to him; and ours now yields, in land-revenue, stamp-duty, and the tax on spirits, two crore and twelve lacs a-year, while the reserved half now yields to Oude only about one crore, or one crore and ten lacs.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

Thousands of happy families were proud to acknowledge that they owed all their happiness to the careful and liberal revision of the settlement of the land-revenue made by him, in which he had provided for the interests of the higher and middle classes connected with the land, while he secured the rights of the humblest.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822

Under a system of limited settlements of the land - revenue, such as prevail over all our dominions, except in Bengal, the Government is in reality the landlord; and our land-revenue is in reality land-rent.

A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II William Sleeman 1822