• In English law, poundage was an ad valorem (in proportion to value) customs duty imposed on imports and exports at the rate of 1 shilling for every pound...
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    Wikisource has original text related to this article: Obadiah Poundage Obadiah Poundage was the pen-name of a London brewer of the 18th century who published...
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  • Tonnage and poundage were English duties and taxes first levied in Edward II's reign on every tun (cask) of imported wine, which came mostly from Spain...
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    making it a truly calibrated gripper. IronMind developed an approximate poundage-rating system for its grippers in 1993, outlined in Captains of Crush Grippers:...
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  • Poundage quotas were authorized by the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938, so the peanut poundage quota was the supply control mechanism for the peanut...
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    Commons limited its authorisation for royal collection of tonnage and poundage (two varieties of customs duties) to a year, although previous sovereigns...
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  • using drop sets (aka dropsets, descending sets, strip sets, the multi-poundage system the stripping method, triple-drops, down the rack, or running the...
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  • A poundage quota, also called a marketing quota, is a quantitative limit on the amount of a commodity that can be marketed under the provisions of a permanent...
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    imported goods; from the 14th century this became known as tonnage and poundage. A Board of Customs was effectively created by the Long Parliament on 21...
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  • The Tariff Act of 1789 was the first major piece of legislation passed in the United States after the ratification of the United States Constitution. It...
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    lands that Henry owned as well as from customs duties like tonnage and poundage, granted by Parliament to the King for life. During Henry's reign the revenues...
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    named recipient at another post office. A fee for the service, known as poundage, is paid by the purchaser. In the United States, this is known as a postal...
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    reference to Magna Carta, but did not grant him the right of tonnage and poundage, which Charles had been collecting without Parliamentary authorisation...
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    James a generous life income, including all of the proceeds of tonnage and poundage and the customs duties. James worked harder as king than his brother had...
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    Charles had asked the parliament to vote him the duties of tonnage and poundage for life, as had been customary at the beginning of each monarch's reign...
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    all the drinking and divorcing, all the pills and all the men, all the poundage come and gone – brothers and sisters, she knows. Openly gay comedian Bob...
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  • 1697-8: An Act for granting to His Majesty a further Subsidy of Tunnage and Poundage towards raiseing the Yearly Su[m]m of Seven hundred thousand Pounds......
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    won the final derby seasons, taking home the titles for both the highest poundage caught and the highest dollars earned amongst the featured boats in the...
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    instead of having the office holder personally retain fees and poundage. Although fees and poundage would still be charged by sheriffs, the monies would be retained...
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    dramatic decline. Poundage quotas under the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938 and successor laws in the United States. The peanut poundage quota ended in...
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  • England, as well as calling upon merchants to refuse to pay tonnage and poundage. In response to this, on 10 March 1629, Sir John Finch (the Speaker of...
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    2009. Retrieved March 2, 2009. "How fat is fat? Sumo heavy pledges more poundage". Reuters. July 31, 2008. Retrieved February 10, 2009. "Some rikishi angry...
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    Association. Retrieved February 9, 2015. "Brewing a Historical Beer - Obadiah Poundage". YouTube. Goose Island. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21. Retrieved...
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  • a fellow crewman's poor observation skills when his tally of the crab poundage fails to match up with the official total by over 20,000 pounds. Since...
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  • problems, "the drinking and divorcing, all the pills and all the men, all the poundage come and gone", were documented in the media. She was among the first stars...
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  • doi:10.1519/R-15304.1. PMID 16937972. S2CID 17050039. Epley, Boyd (1985). "Poundage Chart". Boyd Epley Workout. Lincoln, NE: Body Enterprises. p. 86. Brzycki...
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    Fishery Landings At Major U. S. Ports Summarized By Year and Ranked By Poundage) "Long Island Index: Interactive Map". www.longislandindexmaps.org. Retrieved...
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    272–278: "even at a range of 240 yards heavy war arrows shot from bows of poundages in the mid- to upper range possessed by the Mary Rose bows would have...
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    as a temporary measure while doing so, the Commons granted Tonnage and Poundage for twelve months, rather than the entire reign, as was customary. Charles...
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  • and their goods confiscated. The English king imposed new tonnage and poundage in 1371/72, that covered Hanseatic goods too. The Hanseatic towns and traders...
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