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The New Hampshire Gazette And General Advertiser
Portsmouth, Rockingham County, New Hampshire
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The Polish diet has nearly finished its longest and most violent session ever, resulting in a 100,000-man military establishment, annual expenses of about four million sterling, and a new 10% tax on clergy and church lands revenues, excluding hospitals and convents.
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Military establishment—100,000 men.
Annual expense—computed at forty-eight millions five hundred and thirty-one thousand Polish florins, at about four millions sterling.
Additional revenue to pay it—A tax of ten per cent. on the revenues of the clergy and church lands, excepting such as belong to hospitals and convents.
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Poland
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military establishment of 100,000 men; annual expense of forty-eight millions five hundred and thirty-one thousand polish florins (about four millions sterling); additional revenue via 10% tax on clergy and church lands revenues, excluding hospitals and convents.
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The diet of Poland has nearly finished its sitting, described as the longest and most violent ever known. Their deliberations on the state of the nation resulted in decisions on military establishment, annual expenses, and additional revenue sources.