capitation tax

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The same edict proclaimed likewise the abolition of the jizy�, a capitation tax imposed by the Afgh�n rulers of India upon those subjects who did not follow the faith of Muhammad.

From Rulers of India: Akbar by Malleson, George Bruce

They were exempted from the capitation tax or personal tribute.

From The History of Puerto Rico From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation by Van Middeldyk, R. A. (Rudolph Adams)

They pay to the government a capitation tax of seven rials.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century, Volume XLIII, 1670-1700 by Various

Provision was made for the capitation tax in the Constitution of 1867-68.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various

During the colonial period and, at times, after the Revolution, Negroes paid a capitation tax.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 2, 1917 by Various