Two certificates for several daughtersSourced
A hair-powder tax had a family exception
Britain’s 1795 hair-powder duty required annual certificates. A father with more than two unmarried daughters could name all of them on two certificates. A tax connected to a fashionable grooming practice included detailed exceptions for household circumstances.
A hairstyle’s taxation reached into family arrangements.
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