Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Paying a local tax; relating to taxation by assessment.
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- adjective Paying
rates ortaxes .
Etymologies
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Examples
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There was a restricted property qualification for elections to the Boards, based on ownership and ratepaying.
Votes For Women : 1918, 1870 or Earlier ? Harry Barnes 2007
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The people were alive at a very early date to the importance of improving the roads; and as far back as 1793 an Act was passed at Niagara, then the seat of government, placing the roads under overseers or road-masters, as they were called, appointed by the ratepaying inhabitants at their annual town meetings.
Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885
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| Pages 289, 361 and 374: Spelling of rate-paying and ratepaying not |
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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The councillors were to be elected directly by ratepaying occupiers, with a saving for the prescriptive rights of existing freemen.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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The elective franchise in counties, hitherto confined to freeholders, was to be conferred on £10 copyholders and £50 leaseholders; the borough franchise was to exclude "scot and lot" voters, "potwallopers" and most other survivals of antiquated electorates, but to include ratepaying £10 householders.
The Political History of England - Vol XI From Addington's Administration to the close of William IV.'s Reign (1801-1837) John Knight Fotheringham 1867
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These words affect the question as to the right of the ratepaying parishioners of a new district voting for the
Churchwardens' Manual their duties, powers, rights, and privilages George Henry Sumner 1866
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Niagara, then the seat of government, placing the roads under overseers or road-masters, as they were called, appointed by the ratepaying inhabitants at their annual town meetings.
Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian Canniff Haight 1863
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He is an asset to the district and the ratepaying public.
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