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8 Contract

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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