capitation tax

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Similarly regarding the jizy�, or capitation tax imposed by Muhammadan sovereigns on those of another faith.

From Rulers of India: Akbar by Malleson, George Bruce

There was no poor rate, no capitation tax, no tithes, or ecclesiastical rates of any kind.

From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Ryerson, Egerton

Utterly ignorant of the political relations between Mexico and Yucatan, they came in from their ranchos and milpas under a promise by General Iman that their capitation tax should be remitted.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. II. by Stephens, John L.

Almost at the outbreak of the Civil War it also gave the king a graduated capitation tax.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 4 "England" to "English Finance" by Various

A poll or capitation tax was levied upon the nomadic and stationary gipsies, and money was even exacted under all kinds of pretences from the heads of the religious orders.

From Roumania Past and Present by Samuelson, James