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Excerpt from The History of Local Taxation in Scotland
A considerable portion of the second chap ter was published in the Economic Journal' for September 1906, under the title, Ability as the Measure of Taxation for Poor Relief in Scotland; and my thanks are due to Professor Edgeworth, the editor, for his kind permission to make use of that essay. The rest of the present volume appears in print for the first time. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
