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  • By the specimens that I have Seen, they go on with great spirit, in preparing the Impost, which is s favourable omen.

    Letter from John Adams to Abigail Adams, 19 April 1789 1789

  • The two delegates assured Morris that “the Impost Law will at length be passed in that state,” and went on their way.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Arriving in the capital, he found that “all the members of Congress, as well as the Inhabitants, were universally in favor of the Impost, and concluding that my single voice would be unavailing against the current I cautiously avoided entering unnecessarily into the subject.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Arriving in the capital, he found that “all the members of Congress, as well as the Inhabitants, were universally in favor of the Impost, and concluding that my single voice would be unavailing against the current I cautiously avoided entering unnecessarily into the subject.”

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • The two delegates assured Morris that “the Impost Law will at length be passed in that state,” and went on their way.

    Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

  • Bills for appropriating any Part of the Public Revenue, or for imposing any Tax or Impost, shall originate in the House of Commons.

    The British North America Act, 1867 Anonymous

  • House of Commons to adopt or pass any Vote, Resolution, Address, or Bill for the Appropriation of any Part of the Public Revenue, or of any Tax or Impost, to any Purpose that has not been first recommended to that

    The British North America Act, 1867 Anonymous

  • Impost, and the County of Middlesex as Treasurer, for more than fifty Years; in the Discharge of all which Offices, such was his conscientious Fidelity and unsullied Integrity, as procured him universal Approbation and Esteem.

    The Olden Time Series: Vol. 2: The Days of the Spinning-Wheel in New England Gleanings Chiefly from old Newspapers of Boston and Salem, Massachusetts Various

  • Representn. this agreeably to the Sentiments of 11 States -- Impost alone will not be sufficient to answer the national

    The Journal of Negro History, Volume 3, 1918 Various

  • Funding bill passed — Impost — Prospects of adjournment.

    The Writings of James Madison 1906

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