POLL TAX • FREE-TRANSLATOR.COM • Definition of Poll tax

... the advantages ... allow me to propose a general and equitable tax collected from all the rateable members of a state, for the support of the public teachers of religion, of all denominations, within the state.... Let a moderate poll tax be added to a tax of a specified sum on the pound, and levied on all the subjects of a state and collected with the public tax, and paid out to the public teachers of religion of the several denominations in proportion to the number of polls or families, belonging to each respectively; or according ...

— The Development of Religious Liberty in Connecticut • M. Louise Greene, Ph. D.

... a tax on the person and not on property. A male citizen twenty-one and over must pay a poll tax of $1.00 even if he has no property. He must pay this tax before he can vote. In Kentucky the poll ...

— Citizenship - A Manual for Voters • Emma Guy Cromwell