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911Atkinson was an American industrialist and economist. He wrote "Cheap Cotton by Free Labor" "The Collection of Revenue" and "Argument for the Conditional Reform of the Legal-Tender Act". TMS. 7pg. 8 ½" x 11". Dec. 29 1899. Boston. A typewritten manuscript signed "Edward Atkinson" and accompanied by a slew of handwritten notes between lines and in margins. The manuscript is entitled "A Single Tax Parable. A very simple story" and reads in part: ". Away down to the West of the Indian Territory there lies a bit of land of exceedingly uniform and fertile character named 'No Man's Land' belonging to the United States. It was set apart when opened to settlement for an experiment in collecting the entire revenue due from settlers for any purpose by a 'single tax'. John Doe and Richard Roe were two New England mechanics. without the possibility of accumulating gain. They concluded to better their conditions by accepting under the Government grant each a quarter section in 'No Man's Land' on a single tax or ground rent at an assessment of two 2 per cent. making the single tax. on the whole parcel eighty dollars $80.; a seemingly high valuation but a low rate. John Doe and Richard Roe each had a thousand dollars $1000 in capital. Each built a small house putting the rest of their money into tools. Each put into wheat one hundred 100 acres. land of uniform fertility. Each kept a set of books valuing their own time. At the beginning of the second year John Doe bought a piano for the use of his daughter and bought a trotting horse and buggy for himself. Richard Roe was satisfied with a parlor organ. and put the rest of his profits into some good dairy stock. ". The manuscript continues along these lines and ends with the less frugal Doe working as an employee of the smarter Roe. There are over a handwritten hundred words and his signature appears at the end. The manuscript is in excellent condition with horizontal folds and a paper clip mark throughout unknown books
184020238Boston : Commonwealth of Massachusetts 1840. Broadside. Near Fine. Single folio sheet printed recto approximately 17.5 x 13.675 inches; one horizontal and three vertical folds; near fine. Broadside. An Act passed by both the Massachusetts House of Representatives and the Senate Governing the valuing of poll and property taxes in Massachusetts. The first section tasks Assessors to submit to the Secretary of the Commonwealth's office a "true and perfect list" of all male polls age sixteen and up together with "all rateable estate both real and personal lying within their Cities Towns and Districts" with a value of more than twenty dollars. A poll tax is a tax on a person. The Act also establishes an oath which each Assessor must agree to swear by along with penalties for either refusing the oath or not abiding by its terms. Section Seven of the Act details the correct type of form on which information for listing polls and property must be recorded. Even by today's standards this form might be considered comprehensive to the point of being intrusive. To give a few examples: "Number of ounces of plate of all kinds exceeding twenty dollars in value. Number of bushels of wheat. of rye. of Indian corn. of flax. of hemp. of hops. of tons of hay. of cow rights. of horses one year old and upwards. of mules and asses. of oxen. of steers and heifers. of sheep. of swine." and much much more. It was during this decade that Henry David Thoreau was jailed for not paying his taxes ostensibly on the grounds of his objection to slavery and the Mexican war. Signed in type by Robert C. Winthrop Speaker of the Massachusetts House; Daniel P. King President of the Senate and John P. Bigelow Secretary of the Commonwealth. <br/><br/>WorldCat records only one institutional holding AAS of a four-page pamphlet of the same title with very similar although not identical content. No broadside printings are recorded by WorldCat. Commonwealth of Massachusetts unknown books
187125888New York: Harper & Brothers 1871. Revised edition. Paper wrappers. Front wrapper loose with some tape repairs and library stamp a few leaves chipped at the edges leaves clean binding tight overall good copy. 74 pp. 8vo. Assembly doc. no. 39. Scarce. Harper & Brothers unknown books
173459334Leyden: apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff 1734. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Contemporary full mottled Dutch calf gilt spine red leather title label. Small rectangular excision from lower margin of half-title leaf. some slight darkening at edges. First combined edition. Engraved general title by Bleyswyck additional printed title in red and black. 26 344 14 pp.; separate title page Dd4 for second title misbound at rear along with Contents leaf. Two parts with continuous pagination. 1 vols. 4to. Collects two works by the prolific Dutch scholar and Roman historian Pieter Burmann. The first deals with a Roman tax called the "vectigal" which was applied to revenue "derived from public land mines salt-works. etc. and in general to rents derived from State property." - Oxford Classical Dictionary 1949. apud Conradum & Georgum Wishoff unknown books
173928067Paris: De Nully 1739. First edition. 16 617 7 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary brown sprinkled calf gilt spine leather label marbled endpapers. Previous owner's signature on title otherwise a near fine copy. First edition. 16 617 7 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Taxes in the Ancien Régime. Comprehensive treatment on the origine rationale collection and and evolution of various taxes by this "Conseiller du Roi Lieutenant Général en chef au Siège des Elections de Xaintes." Kress 4476 De Nully unknown books
