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Taxing Corporate Directors and Habeas Corpus Debate
A London debate covers taxation of Bank Directors as Trustees for stockholders, with concerns on dividend impact. It also tailed by arguments over renewing the Habeas Corpus suspension, prison conditions at Cold Bath Fields, and support for or against continuing the measure. The session includes Pitt’s income tax clauses and measures for volunteers and militia, with reports of prison governance and parliamentary responses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tieracy
Pitt
Tierney
Pit
Z. Geary
Rochester
A&t
Courteney
Bath
Col. Despard
Smith
Dundas
London Corresponding Society
Lord Kenyon
Burdon
F. Burdett
Ireland
Mainwaring
House of Correction
Bath Fields
Wilberforce
Burks
Lord Hale