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C 3

Offences against the Revenue

be the object of any of those the same offences precisely
as a correspondent portion of private wealth.
It may be stolen embezzled, fraudulently obtained, embezzled misapplied by peculation
taken, obtained or detained by force, overflow burnt, overflowed or otherwise
damaged or destroyed. Now as far as this then as far as it is
thus circumstanced it furnishes no new matter
for the law to operate upon. The same laws
that serve for the protection of it when it is in
the same shape of private property, will also
serve for the protection of it when it is public
property.

It can be derived only out of private But how is it that public property
becomes such? whence is it derived? It is evident
that such part of it as is not produced by the labour
of such persons whose services are public property,
can be taken originally be taken only from the
general mass of private property. There is no
other fund from whence it can be drawn. If
drawn then from private property it is evident how much
it must be taken that whatever part of it without an equivalent, since
there is no other fund from whence such an equivalent
can come.

A tax, what A fortune of The operation of government by
which a portion of wealth is drawn thus extracted from the
general mass of private property without an equivalent

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Identifier: | JB/072/059/003 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 72.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	072	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	059	Info in main headings field	offences against the revenue
Image	003	Titles	notes
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::[gr with crown motif] pro patria [with motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23676
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