Another Boom Is goming! If vou desire to invest in % • ,; 7' * Land or Town Properties Consult a Reliable Agent who can give you good information and DO H NOW before prices become too high. W. LISSANT GLAYTON, ESTATE AGENT. 'PHONE 220 and 285. Telegrams: “LISSANT, GISBORNE.”
Marriage, as well as baehelordoni, was taxed under William 111.. ond oven the pleasure of being buried entailed .a payment to the State. By a law passed in 1695 every unmarried man had to pay a year I impost ranging Ironi £l2 11s in the case of dukes and archbishops, down to Is in the case of those scheduled as “Other Persons.” It was further enacted that a duke or an archb.islinu .should pay £SO 'when he married, £3O when his eldest son was born, £25 when, ever- younger son was born, £3O when his oldest sen was married, £SO when his wife was buried* and £3O when his eldest son was buried. Other male subjects paid similar taxes, graduated according to their station.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3264, 8 July 1911, Page 10
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170Page 10 Advertisements Column 4 Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3264, 8 July 1911, Page 10
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