1753 Acts Gen. Assembly Province New-Jersey 61 A List of all the Ratables in the Township.

1771 J. Bowdoin Let. 5 Nov. in B. Franklin Papers (1974) XVIII. 241 Pursuant to a late Act of the Genl. Court for enquiring into the rateable Estate of the Province, Lists of the Poles and other Rateables have been taken in each town.

1834 T. F. Gordon Hist. New Jersey 58 It is their duty at such meeting to make out two abstracts of the rateables in each township, signed by the assessors present.

1896 Trenton (New Jersey) Evening Times 4 Sept. 1/4 The county rateables had not increased any to speak of as there had been comparatively little building and improvement this year or last year.

1968 Independent Press-Telegram (Long Beach, Calif.) 18 Aug. r8/3 Every time a new development goes in or a new apartment house is built, I keep reading about the new rateables that are coming.

1971 William & Mary Quart. 28 559 In 1731 the First Society lost over two thousand pounds in rateables to Southbury, and as much again in 1743 when Toxbury was set apart.

2006 Jrnl. News (Westchester County, N.Y.) (Nexis) 4 Apr. 4 b That would include rebuilding old, dilapidated areas for more affordable housing and ‘clean’ rateables.

1503 Rolls of Parl. VI. 533/1 Chargeable with lyke and egall Sommes, ratable at xxs of Freeholde.

c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. D.vii An other help they haue that of euery purse that is clenly conueyed, a ratable porcion is dewly deliuered into the tresurers hands.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. ix. 538/2 A ratable distribution being made of their estates to the Kings well deseruing friends.

1628 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. xix. sig. D11 He is..an ornament..and is meerely ratable accordingly, fiftie or an hundred Pound.

1651 tr. J. Kitchin Jurisdictions 414 He shall have a Writ to be discharged for a ratable proportion.

1707 L. Echard Hist. Eng. ii. ii. §iv. 298 Such as had join'd with Earl Montfort were fully disinherited, and a rateable Distribution made of their Estates.

1768 H. Brooke Fool of Quality III. xvi. 248 Men consented to fix certain rateable values upon money.

1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. i. 20 Requiring a rateable part, according to such declaration.

1850 C. Davies University Arithm. 290 A and B get their remaining and injured goods, and the three others get theirs in a perfect state, after paying their rateable proportion of the loss.

1875 Draft Constit. Colorado 28 Whenever a deputy shall take the place of the delegate..such deputy shall receive the per diem, or the rateable part thereof, for his attendance.

1925 R. B. Mowat Diplomatic Relations Great Brit. & U.S. xiv. 157 The expenses of the Commission were defrayed by a rateable charge on all the sums awarded.

1994 World-Herald (Omaha) 23 Dec. 19/1 Then using the excuse of a lack of ratable teams was an excellent way to waffle the subject.

1672 Recs. Gen. Court 14 Oct. in J. H. Trumbull Public Rec. Colony of Connecticut (1852) II. 186 This court granted a rate of a penny farthen upon the pownd, upon all the rateable estate of the Colony.

1693 in Acts & Laws Massachusetts-Bay (1724) 57 Such Proprietors and Freeholders, every of whom have a Rateable Estate..of the Value of Fifty Pounds..to have the Privilege of Two [horses], and no more.

1750 Acts & Laws Connecticut 198 The Select-Men of such Town, or Towns..are hereby Impowered to Levy a Tax, or Rate upon the Inhabitants of the said Town, or Towns according to the List of Polls, and Rateable Estate therein.

1765 T. Hutchinson Hist. Colony Massachusets-Bay, 1628–91 (ed. 2) ii. 231 English subjects, being free holders, rateable to a certain value.

1818 J. Bentham Church-of-Englandism 165 To paupers, as well as to rateable inhabitants.

1847 G. Grote Hist. Greece III. ii. xi. 156 The rateable property of the citizen.

1924 J. P. Jensen Probl. Public Finance xvii. 285 English landlords and tenants of real estate often demand that other property be made ratable.

2003 B. Dollery et al. Reshaping Austral. Local Govt. vi. 113 South Australia also allows..one nominee from a body corporate or from a ‘group’ of joint-owners or occupiers of a rateable property, to vote.

1819 Jackson's Oxf. Jrnl. 17 July 2/3 A very considerable increase of charge falls upon the retail shopkeepers, from the mode in which it had been the practice to fix the rateable value of their houses.

1874 Act 37 & 38 Vict. c. 54 §4 The gross and rateable value of any land used for a plantation or a wood..shall be estimated as follows.

1909 Daily Chron. 13 Aug. 4/3 Mr. Lloyd George is understood..to have promised favourable consideration to the plea of the London Members for some alteration in the ‘rateable-value’ basis.

1976 Evening Post (Nottingham) 14 Dec. 4/7 The rateable values did not take into account the disadvantages of living in the city centre.