Railway Reform: Its Importance and Practicability Considered as Affecting the Nation, the Shareholders, and the GovernmentLongman, Green, Longman, Roberts, & Green, 1865 - 405 páginas |
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... paid the remaining fourth . We shall find , in the course of our investigation , that on this principle - but with a very important difference in matters of detail - was founded the Railway Act of 1844. Locomotion is one of the great ...
... paid the remaining fourth . We shall find , in the course of our investigation , that on this principle - but with a very important difference in matters of detail - was founded the Railway Act of 1844. Locomotion is one of the great ...
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... paid by the public to railway companies is now 0 th it in pay nec SYS pan do extra year & yea panie and i that t payme FIFTE then e arrived be disc lature . There * Mr . O and the A 1 increasing at the rate of more than two millions ...
... paid by the public to railway companies is now 0 th it in pay nec SYS pan do extra year & yea panie and i that t payme FIFTE then e arrived be disc lature . There * Mr . O and the A 1 increasing at the rate of more than two millions ...
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... paid ; last year the income of the railways was thirty - one millions ; this year it will amount to nearly thirty - four millions ; and next year it will , probably , equal in amount the one - half of all our taxation ! There is ...
... paid ; last year the income of the railways was thirty - one millions ; this year it will amount to nearly thirty - four millions ; and next year it will , probably , equal in amount the one - half of all our taxation ! There is ...
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... paid him only four per cent . on the money he had invested , yet he had found a shilling fare and carrying two passengers more pro- fitable than a lower fare with an increased number of passengers . He had tried sixpenny fares ; that ...
... paid him only four per cent . on the money he had invested , yet he had found a shilling fare and carrying two passengers more pro- fitable than a lower fare with an increased number of passengers . He had tried sixpenny fares ; that ...
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... paid by the country in customs and excise duties , for they are still going on increasing year by year , to an extent not definable by any limits . It surely , then , is time for our statesmen to grapple with this huge question , and ...
... paid by the country in customs and excise duties , for they are still going on increasing year by year , to an extent not definable by any limits . It surely , then , is time for our statesmen to grapple with this huge question , and ...
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Página 291 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain, and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.