Category: History - American
Introduction Page 1 Taxation in Rhode Island 1636-1689 4 The law and administration 16 Taxation 1689-1710 25 The law and administration 32 Miscellaneous revenues 37 Period of paper money 1710-1751 38 Financial history 1751-1790 46 The law of taxation since 1710 63 Colonial and...
Introduction Page 1 Taxation in Rhode Island 1636-1689 4 The law and administration 16 Taxation 1689-1710 25 The law and administration 32 Miscellaneous revenues 37 Period of pa...
2. Part 2Neither in the Patent nor in the Charter is there any specific grant of the power to tax;[54] it seems to have been regarded as implied in the grant of government, and was alway...
3. Part 3The three succeeding taxes were, in accordance with the resolution of 1690, percentage taxes and in connection with them we find much interesting legislation. A committee appoin...
4. Part 4The above is a general outline of the financial operations of the period. The indebtedness of the colony at any particular date is difficult to determine. A committee in 1762 es...
5. Part 5Just what was the basis of apportionment among the towns when taxation was resumed in 1744, we do not know. By act of June 1747 the assessors in each town were required to take...
6. Part 6Such figures, of course, are not exact, and it has been impossible to find more than fragmentary returns from other counties. Such counties were, however, comparatively unimport...
7. Part 7We have of course no accurate records of the number of the population at that time. From the data which we do have however it is probably safe to say that when the four towns ca...
8. Part 8A committee was appointed to draw up a law for valuing lands and cattle, and if upon examination it was found that any town had been overrated a rebate was to be allowed to it o...
9. Part 9The above sums do not include £2,000 emitted in 1728 for use on the fort. Portions of the bills emitted to exchange torn bills seem to have been turned from that purpose to meet...