In Spanish and Mexican law. Taxes imposed by municipalities on certain articles of merchandise , to defray the general expenses of government, in default of revenues from “proprios,” 1. e., lands owned by the municipality , or the income of which was legally set apart for its support. Sometimes used in a wider sense, as meaning the resources of a town, including its privileges in the royal lands as well as the taxes. Escriche Diet.; Sheldon v. Milmo, 90 Tex. 1, 30 S. W. 413.
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