apportionment of taxes

This fringe element spearheaded an effort within Haiti's inexperienced Parliament to bring down a fledgling Government that sought such radical policies as fiscal responsibility, fair apportionment of taxes and the elimination of drug trafficking - a remarkable feat, which you seem to dismiss.

He also praised the clerical system of the distribution of taxes, according to which the beneficed ecclesiastics throughout the kingdom were divided into eight départements, or classes, in order to facilitate the apportionment of taxes in ascending ratio, according to the resources of each.