Use "imposts" in a sentence

1. ‘The imposts of the ground-storey piers were simplified and the moulded Archivolts were omitted.’.

2. The Confederative diet further decreed the increase of the army, granted imposts on the property of the nobility and clergy, and established a commission of war dependent on the diet only, in order to check the influence of the permanent council of state, which their spoliators had created, for the purpose of destroying the national power.