capitation tax

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Up to 1671, all Creoles, Mulattoes, free Negroes, etc., paid a capitation tax.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 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

He also abolished all taxes upon pilgrims as an interference with the liberty of worship, and the capitation tax upon Hindus, probably upon similar grounds.

From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg

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

He told me in 1904 that he held under his control 9,600 persons, from 1,700 of whom he collected capitation tax for the American authorities.

From The Philippine Islands by Foreman, John