faculty taxの例文

• In 1796, Delaware abolished its faculty tax, and in 1819 Connecticut followed suit.
• This period coincided with the United States'acquisition of colonies, or dependencies : the Philippines, Puerto Rico, and Guam from Spain in the Spanish American War, 1898 99; American Samoa by agreements with local leaders, 1899-1904; the Panama Canal Zone by agreement from Panama in 1904; and the U . S . Virgin Islands purchased from Denmark in 1917 . ( Arguably, Alaska, purchased from Russia in 1867, and Hawaii, annexed in 1900, were also dependencies, but both were by 1903 " incorporated " in the U . S ., which these others never have been . ) The Panama Canal Zone was essentially a company town, but the others all began levying income taxes under American rule . ( Puerto Rico already had an income tax much like a faculty tax, which remained in effect for a short time after 1898 .)