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... Grants from State Revenues 457 459 99 BOOK IV . - PUBLIC DEBT CHAPTER XXXIII THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC DEBTS Sect . 1. The Importance of Public Debt 99 2. The Origin of Public Debt " " 3. The Peculiarities of Public Debt 465 ...
... Grants from State Revenues 457 459 99 BOOK IV . - PUBLIC DEBT CHAPTER XXXIII THE GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PUBLIC DEBTS Sect . 1. The Importance of Public Debt 99 2. The Origin of Public Debt " " 3. The Peculiarities of Public Debt 465 ...
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... grants to certain schools and colleges and hospitals . But a grant for the construction of a temple or mosque in India would not be in accordance with the principle laid down as this is not a recognised policy or custom . 1 Cf. Chapter ...
... grants to certain schools and colleges and hospitals . But a grant for the construction of a temple or mosque in India would not be in accordance with the principle laid down as this is not a recognised policy or custom . 1 Cf. Chapter ...
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... grants to develop commercial aerial communications . Under the mis- cellaneous group are included pension charges , drawbacks , or refunds . . This classification gives on the whole the best results . It is in accordance with the ...
... grants to develop commercial aerial communications . Under the mis- cellaneous group are included pension charges , drawbacks , or refunds . . This classification gives on the whole the best results . It is in accordance with the ...
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... Report on an Enquiry into Working Class Budgets in Bombay , G. Findlay Shirras , Bombay Government Central Press , 1923 , p . 29 following . F grants should be made to the authority , and if CH . VII EXPENDITURE ON SECONDARY FUNCTIONS 65.
... Report on an Enquiry into Working Class Budgets in Bombay , G. Findlay Shirras , Bombay Government Central Press , 1923 , p . 29 following . F grants should be made to the authority , and if CH . VII EXPENDITURE ON SECONDARY FUNCTIONS 65.
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George Findlay Shirras. grants should be made to the authority , and if the total sums payable out of those moneys to ... grants and local taxation . Education is more or less compulsory . In Australia education is secular , free , and 1 ...
George Findlay Shirras. grants should be made to the authority , and if the total sums payable out of those moneys to ... grants and local taxation . Education is more or less compulsory . In Australia education is secular , free , and 1 ...
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Page 123 - The subjects of every state ought to contribute towards the support of the government, as nearly as possible, in proportion to their respective abilities ; that is, in proportion to the revenue which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state.
Page 124 - Every tax ought to be so contrived as both to take out and to keep out of the pockets of the people as Little as possible, over and above what it brings into the public treasury of the state.
Page 124 - The tax which each individual is bound to pay ought to be certain and not arbitrary. The time of payment, the manner of payment, the quantity to be paid, ought all to be clear and plain to the contributor, and to every other person.
Page 596 - The policy of His Majesty's Government, with which the Government of India are in complete accord, is that of the increasing association of Indians in every branch of the administration and the gradual development of self-governing institutions with a view to the progressive realisation of responsible government in India as an integral part of the British Empire.
Page 36 - Every man, as long as he does not violate the laws of justice...
Page 65 - The more they are instructed, the less liable they are to the delusions of enthusiasm and superstition, which, among ignorant nations, frequently occasion the most dreadful disorders. An instructed and intelligent people, besides, are always more decent and orderly than an ignorant and stupid one.
Page 124 - Where it is otherwise, every person subject to the tax is put more or less in the power of the taxgatherer, who can either aggravate the tax upon any obnoxious contributor, or extort by the terror of such aggravation, some present or perquisite to himself.
Page 570 - Indian peoples, must be judges of the time and measure of each advance, and they must be guided by the co-operation received from those upon whom new opportunities of service will thus be conferred and by the extent to which it is found that confidence can be reposed in their sense of responsibility.
Page 117 - A direct tax is one which is demanded from the very persons who, it is intended or desired, should pay it. Indirect taxes are those which are demanded from one person in the expectation and intention that he shall indemnify himself at the expense of another ; such as the excise or customs.
Page 591 - Except as otherwise provided by law all balances of appropriations contained in the annual appropriation bills and made specifically for the service of any fiscal year, and remaining unexpended at the expiration of such fiscal year, shall only be applied to the payment of expenses properly incurred during that year, or to the fulfillment of contracts properly made within that year ; and balances not needed for such purposes shall be carried to the surplus fund.