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noun

Poundage n.

A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain sum paid for each pound; a commission.

A subsidy of twelve pence in the pound, formerly granted to the crown on all goods exported or imported, and if by aliens, more. (Eng.)

(Law) The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound.

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... find his right to levy Ship-money, Tonnage, and Poundage on the tongues of men; where did he find his "law?" Surely not in the statute. When the bill was pending in 1790, suppose his construction of the statute had been declared to Congress—who would have voted for a law so monstrous? The statute ...

— The Trial of Theodore Parker • Theodore Parker

... restrictions, ruthlessly enforced, without regard to the interests or even the rights of others. She had more than four hundred Acts of Parliament, regulating the tax on imports, under the old designations of "tonnage and poundage," adjusted, as the phrase indicates, to heavy and light commodities. Beyond these, she had a cumbersome system of laws regulating and in many cases prohibiting the exportation of articles which might teach to other nations the skill by which she had ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Vol. 1 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... done without parting with some of the prerogatives of the Crowne; or if denied and he persists to take it of the people, it gives occasion to a civill war, which did in the late business of tonnage and poundage prove fatal to the Crowne. He showed me how many ways the Lord Treasurer did take before he moved the King to farme the Customes in the manner he do, and the reasons that moved him to do it. He showed me a very excellent argument to prove, ...

— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys

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