Usually means: Payment for each immigrant landed.
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  1. head money: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. head money: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. head money: Collins English Dictionary
  4. head-money, head money: Wordnik
  5. head money: Wiktionary
  6. head money: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Head money, head money: Dictionary.com
  8. head money: Free Dictionary
  9. head money: Dictionary/thesaurus

Definitions from Wiktionary (head money)

noun:  (obsolete) Poll tax.
noun:  (obsolete) A reward paid per person captured at sea etc.
noun:  (obsolete) A reward for a proscribed outlaw's head.

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