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its force, while there is any thing to pay for it. To
Bounties for money given in encrease of wealth, the best that can
happen is to be thrown money and do no good,
the likeliest is to be worse than thrown away, & do
to do mischief. If I were obliged to disturb
industry in some way or other on pretence of encouraging
it, I would much rather do it in the
way of income taxes and prohibitions upon
rural branches than in the way of Bounties. By
taxes I should get money, by prohibitions I
should spend none, by bounties the best thing
I could ever do would be to fling throw away all
the money in paying men for carrying on an
unprofitable trade. To p.6

From p.6 In these sentiments, if I misrecollect not
you go along with me, as in the expression
you and so many others have gone before me.
I hope trust your country, as occasion serves will
now reap the fruits of the application of them
to practice.

In what concerns the following heads I wish
my conjectures may prove equally fortunate.

I only eccho you: I am sure. I do little but eccho Dr Smith: but they are sentiments notions which can not be too often, while the practice of nations is the reverse. But your dissipation in this way would be frugality to ours.

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Date_1	1789	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	009	Main Headings
Folio number	049	Info in main headings field	finance
Image	001	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / f6 / f7 / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l munn [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	benjamin constant
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	see note to letter 680, vol. 4	ID Number	3350
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