单词 | metage duty |
释义 | > as lemmasmetage duty General attributive (in sense 1), as metage charge, metage due, metage duty, metage silver, etc. ΚΠ 1546–7 in R. Renwick Extracts Rec. Stirling (1887) I. 46 Thai sall pay tharfor iiijd. of the chalder of mettage silveir. 1596 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1848) II. 147 As for the mettage deutie. 1603 in M. Wood & R. K. Hannay Extracts Rec. Burgh Edinb. (1927) V. 323 That all..victuall cumand within..this burgh and mett thairin suld pay mettage sylver. 1746 Act 19 Geo. II c. 35 §10 The Amount of the Metage Charge [of Coals]. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xv. 456 On payment of the Metage Duty. 1865 Daily Tel. 16 Nov. 8/1 Merchants ..interested in the question of the metage dues. 1894 Polit. Sci. Q. 9 92 The city authorities still levy a metage duty of three-sixteenths of a penny per hundredweight on all grain brought into the port of London, which yielded a revenue of £18,634 in 1890. 1984 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 44 328 Returns of the orphans' duty, and returns of metage fees. < as lemmas |
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