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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 768 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CESS (a shortened
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form of " assess "; the spelling is due to a mistaken connexion with "
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census ") , a tax; a
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term formerly more particularly applied to
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local
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taxation, in which sense it still is used in
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Ireland; otherwise it has been superseded by "
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rate." In
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India it is applied, with the qualifying word prefixed, to any taxation, such as "
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irrigation-
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cess " and the like, and in
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Scotland to the
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land-tax .

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