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Title: A comprehensive history of India, civil, military, and social, from the first landing of the English to the suppression of the Sepoy revolt; including an outline of the early history of Hindoostan Year: 1900 (1900s) Authors: Beveridge, Henry, 1837-1929 Subjects: Publisher: London, Blackie Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Text Appearing After Image: Fort of R.\je Giiur, Ginoee—Daniells Oriental .nnnal. previously passed, and ordered the commanders of ships consigned to the Coro-niandel coast, to take in as many large stones at Johanna (one of the Comoro Isles; as they could stow, to beiLsed f<jr the building of thefort, tiiat it might be placed ina .sufficient state of defenceagain.st any enerny. Meanwhile the subject ofrevenue was still uppermost inthe minds of the court, andthey never omitted an occasionof inculcating the necessity ofincreasing it, and proposingplans for this purpose. Amongthese the first which suggesteditself was a house tax, with aview to which a siu-vey was tobe made of all the houses at Madras, both in the Portuguese and black towns.In anticipation of the discontent which this tax, and a duty imposed on articlesof consumption, would produce, the authorities were instructed to explain thatthose who lived under the English protection must contriljute to the chargesby which that protection was maintained.

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