JB/119/027/004

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the laws by which the contribution is imposed, nor
those by which the payment collection of it is enforced, of their
making. This is one of the paragraphs against
the East India Company slipped in my mistake
under the head of Farmers.

"In the great exigencies of the state, when the
"anxiety of the sovereign for the exact payment of his
"in revenue is of necessarily the greatest, they seldom fail
"to complain that without laws more rigorous than
"those which actually take place, it will be impossible
"for them to pay even the usual rent. In those
"moments of distress their comments can not be disputed".

What is the aim of this argument? – to persuade make
us it out that though the contributors are not the subjects
of the Farmers, the sovereign is. In those moments
"The revenue laws therefore become gradually
"more and more severe. The most sanguinary are
"always to be formed in countries where the greater
"part of the publick revenue is in farm. The mildest
"in countries where it is levied under the immediate
"inspection of the sovereign. Even a bad sovereign
"feels more compassion for his people than can ever
"be expected from the farmers of his revenue. He knows
"that the permanent grandeur of his family depends
upon

Identifier: | JB/119/027/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 119.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	119	Main Headings	panopticon; rationale of reward
Folio number	027	Info in main headings field	contract
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5 / d6 / d7 / d8
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::floyd & co [britannia with shield emblem]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	arthur young
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	39538
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