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  2. Non-importation Act - Wikipedia

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    The following items were banned under the Non-Importation Act of 1806: All articles of which leather, silk, hemp, flax, tin (except in sheets), or brass was the material of chief value; All woolen clothes whose invoice prices shall exceed 5/- sterling per square yard; Woolen hosiery of all kinds; Window, glass and glassware; Silver and plated ...

  3. Nonconsumption agreements - Wikipedia

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    These agreements later served as the basis for the Non-Importation Act, and subsequent Embargo of 1807 that was passed by the United States Congress [1] in 1806 in an attempt to establish American nautical neutrality during the Napoleonic Wars between France and Britain.

  4. Affordable housing in Canada - Wikipedia

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    The Regent Park apartments in Toronto's Cabbagetown neighborhood were intended to be community housing, but they have become dilapidated. The housing continuum includes non-market housing (homelessness, emergency shelters, transitional housing, supportive housing, community and social housing) and market housing (below-market rental/ownership, private rental, and home ownership).

  5. 1806 in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Simeon De Witt. Observations on the Eclipse of 16 June 1806, Made by Simeon De Witt Esq. of Albany, State of New-York, Addressed to Benjamin Rush M. D. to Be by Him Communicated to the American Philosophical Society. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 6, (1809), pp. 300–302; The Massachusetts Election in 1806.

  6. Macon's Bill Number 2 - Wikipedia

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    Macon's Bill Number 2 was the fourth in a series of embargo measures, coming after the Non-Importation Act, the Embargo Act, and the Non-Intercourse Act (1809). Macon neither wrote the bill nor approved it. [2] The law lifted all embargoes with Britain and France for three months.

  7. Payment in lieu of taxes - Wikipedia

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    Similarly, where a non-profit organization may be exempt from equipment taxes and sales taxes, its mission may permit payment of an agreed PILOT to the local tax authorities, to offset the impact upon local services funded by town residents. The size of such payments can be controversial, especially where the organization appears to have ...

  8. Municipal Property Assessment Corporation - Wikipedia

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    This situation was addressed by the Province with the introduction of the Fair Municipal Finance Act, 1997. With this Act substantial amendments to the Assessment Act, the Municipal Act and other related legislation were implemented, setting the stage for reshaping Ontario's assessment and property tax system in 1998. [6]

  9. Rent regulation in Canada - Wikipedia

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    If the rental unit was in an apartment building constructed (or converted from a non-residential use) after November 1, 1991, then the rent control provisions of the Residential Tenancies Act, 2006, did not apply. [5] On April 20, 2017, Premier of Ontario Kathleen Wynne, along with Chris Ballard, Minister of Housing, announced the Fair Housing ...