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applied to See also:local See also:taxation, in which sense it still is used in See also:Ireland; otherwise it has been superseded by " See also:rate."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

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