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RewardingMight not a hint be borrow'd taken from this principle, for towards the obtaining a somewhat chance
of good government in the British conquests in
the East Indies: a country which I take for merely as an
example of a subordinate dominion province, over in which
the owing to the distance of place, the authority
of the local subordinate government must be ample, &
the controul it is subject to in the way of punishment
tedious tardy and precarious.
During the second government of Ld Clive
a regulation was made by the council of Calcutta
in virtue of which a considerable part of the salaries
of the members of that government bore a certain
proportion to the amount of a particular branch
of the revenue, the duty upon salt. That [this
tendency the power of this arrangement to this arrangement would be great in
would tend strongly to render that particular branch
of the revenue production [and that in the highest
degree] is what one can hardly doubt: But this was but
one branch of the revenue and that not the most
considerable. Accordingly It would be an obvious enough idea
to
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