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Exposing person Indirect

Britain houses some sort of a the Land tax
and the window-tax and now lately the House-tax
and in Ireland the tax called Hearth-money
are the means that houses some sort
of an account is taken of the number of houses
in the two islands. This account enumeration however in
imperfect
though pretty general is not universal;
many of the meanest classes meaner sort of dwelling,
not [ being comprized in it, as not falling within
the principle compass of the tax. Nor are the accounts
such as they are render'd public unless by accident
to the world at large.

[Again] in several states of Europe maps

Let an account be taken of the houses
and of the inhabitants together
are made of the face of the country as taken by
actual survey. This has been done in France The operation has been performed
by authority of the government: and it done by
is spreading over England by the industry of private
persons. To give the proposed institution its highest
point of perfection all these operations have will require




Identifier: | JB/062/197/002
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 62.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

not numbered

Box

062

Main Headings

indirect legislation

Folio number

197

Info in main headings field

indirect

Image

002

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

4

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield emblem]]]

Marginals

jeremy bentham

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

20187

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