JB/087/143/001

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Indirect

Rewarding

Non payment of taxes

Of stamp-duties acts it has been taken notice of
as an excellent property very convenient , that they execute themselves.
Let us observe how this comes to pass far
this is true, & how it comes to pass. A stamp-duty
is imposed upon a particular conveyance.
How is the payment enforced? by declaring that the
instrument of conveyance if produced without the
stamp, shall be looked upon as void. A good
conveyance is that which has the public authority
in its favour: adopted by the sovereign it is turned
into a law. Its a efficacy depends upon certain
services which upon occasion the ministers of justice
are disposed to render to him in whose favour it is
made: for example lending their hands for example
to the punishment of any person who without
his allowance shall exercise any acts of ownership
on the thing convey'd. These services the sovereign
that is the ministers of justice by his appointment
were before the imposition of the stamp duty in
the habit of giving rendering gratis. By the stamp act
he declares ordains that in future instead of being
given they shall be sold: sold for the amount of
the

Identifier: | JB/087/143/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	143	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f5 / / / f8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27668
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