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For these purposes only a reasonable 'aid' may be levied.
I could only pray that Nicholson's levies would turn up in time to protect the valley.
It levies at every turn upon the facts which scholarship has accumulated.
A similar limitation is placed on exports, on which no special duty may be levied.
The normal tax of one per cent, is to be levied upon the income of corporations.
That they must settle their own mode of levying their money is supposed.
Is any money levied by order of the council?
He started inside, when the levy notice on the door again met his eyes.
When the war began the regular army was supplemented by a great levy of volunteers.
The public debts remained unpaid, for want of power to levy taxes.
On the other hand direct and indirect taxes were levied to a great extent.
However, I will not put you to the trouble of levying on my furniture.
In what ways does the government levy taxes?
Then, the struggle about the law being abandoned, a new dispute arose regarding the levy.
In return for this contingent he relieved them of the requirement of an annual levy.
The taxes for paying each proportion shall be levied by the several States.
Then I had to pay a boy a levy to put the trunks in the baggage car.
The chief of these was the levying of duties at certain places.
He must get some assurance that no further levy would take place.
Many were the accusations here levied against the Athenians.
The new levies were willing enough to fight, but there was no one to show them how.
Levies are made on private wealth for public purposes.
Assessments were levied in all sorts of ways and for all sorts of purposes.
Another law authorizes local governing bodies to levy their rates on bare land values.
He returned with others of the native levies, and they lifted Ballantyne up.
Nothing is talked of but these new levies, and the young men are much pleased.
Now, how would it strike you if I levied on him as an 'immigrant'?
When the bridge was first opened a small toll was levied for each person crossing over.
He had fitted out ships, and he intended also to levy armies.
Presents of slaves are frequently made, and fines levied.
When the first levies were made, there was little or no discipline kept up.
As he crosses the river they wait for his passage to levy a toll.
We do nothing nowadays but pass penal laws and levy taxes.
This it can very easily do as long as the levy is not too high.
Are we done fighting after they have scattered one hastily gathered levy?
Now say if you will help me to raise the levy afresh?
They can actually levy taxes on the whole world.
The levies were out, and only just in time.
"If there is a levy in the camp there will be men who will need watching among them."
The levies would come up at once when the first summons came.
Even now we must hence, for the sheriff would gather a levy to follow them no doubt.
Her hastily levied army presented a formidable force.
The old man died what learned me how to walk rice levies.
On every ship that passes her den she levies a tribute of six of her crew.
And then I had my first knowledge of the ways of a Saxon levy.
That is a creditor, hoping to find some chair or bed that has not been levied upon.
He had taken an oath that he would no longer levy taxes and subsidies.
During the next three years sixty thousand marks more were levied.
The King empowered the sheriff to levy the fine on all their property.
Neither they nor their clerks observe the schedule when levying the fees.
On whom are the funds levied, and by whom the public credit supported?
To the last day of his life, executions were levied in his house.
A property tax, as the name indicates, is levied upon property.
Let's levy men and beat him back again.
Young girls are separated from their mothers; there are levies made at every moment.
Being touched by this remark, the Emperor ordered the levy to be stopped.
The effect of the Union was to abolish the bounty and double the levy on imports.
I shall be glad if you don't levy regular assessments on me.
A tax is levied on each person or slave exported from the kingdom.
I have already purchased it, and you have not yet levied on it.
And then consider the difficulty of levying so many taxes, and of dividing so much food.
Was your own vast levy in the Civil War without them?
Neither "malice domestic" nor "foreign levy" has prevailed at our expense.
It was levied with the same rigor as the former, and still fell short.
Then the House turned to the discussion of the levy on capital.
It has levied a heavy tribute of Britain's best blood.
A king could no longer make laws or levy taxes or even make war without their assent.
Without a levy what kind of position can you look forward to?
Suppose that five pounds was levied upon you for honesty.
"If we find that this is not enough, we will levy another tax," Grace announced.
The inference must be that the latter levy covers a term of years.
His own cavalry consisted of but two troops, chiefly composed of new levies.
Should there be a single tax levied on land values?
Considerable sums levied for objects of great interest, were applied to his private use.
He said that the people should no longer make their own laws, nor levy their own taxes.
That tax would not have been levied unless things had been in a serious condition.
The whole of the new levies took to their heels, and fled away from the fight.
The Emigrant Trail had levied its first tribute on them, taken its toll.
A body of horse was ordered to be instantly levied.
His new levies were pouring into Spain in hosts.
On this account, a mountainous country is the best campaigning ground for popular levies.
Well, same thing, only we don't propose to levy contributions right and left like they do.
Then the contest about the law being given up, a new dispute arose regarding the levy.
By universal consent the levy is decreed and held.
Or will ye decree a levy by way of punishment, according as each bill shall be proposed?
For from what source was that money to be raised, except by levying a tax on the people.
There shall be a tax levied upon everybody (but especially upon that cursed hat-maker).
Upon those who are free from their youth there is a great tax levied.
Early the next morning, the Pioneers and levies started to cross the pass.
The levies were expected to join the next morning.
Next morning the force started, the levies being ahead.
It seemed that the levies bolted, as soon as they were fired on.
It was never disputed in levying duties to regulate commerce.
I served in the Mug levy, and was appointed for my knowledge of their tongue.
The sum levied in no case to be greater than one penny in the pound for any one year.
The tax collected from the consumer is far heavier than the mere levy of the government.
The raising of the native levies, to his disappointment, proceeded slowly.
They were going quietly, stopping to levy contributions at the villages on the way.
On every side war levies and preparations for war went forward.
The same injustice was shown in levying direct taxes.