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Punishment Succedaneous
When Pecuniary Punishment is the primary
the succedaneous punishment might rather to be
greater than less, otherwise the delinquent may
embrace it in preference to the other.
Labourer | 1-1-0 | 15-13-0 | 1 Year | 109-11-0 | 7 year |
Bank | Income per year | Income per day | Debt acquittable by a years Imprisonment | Debt acquittable by 7 years Imprisonment |
Ensign of Foot | 65-18-4 | 6-3-8 | 65-18-0 |
Lieutenant | | 0-4-8 |
As a proof that men are not unwilling to
pay largely for Rank quote the Universities
At Queens
Gentleman Commoners | pay to their Tutors none less than | 12-12 |
Commoners | | 6-6 |
At admission & on taking degrees
Men should have entitled themselves to their respective
ranks 1 year before the debt incurred, to obviate
Fraud.
The higher a man's rank in life and the greater his
habit of expence the more debt ought an be imprisonment
for a given time to cancell.
The points to be settled are
1st The income being given, how much debt an
Imprisonment for a given time ought to be admitted to cancell.
2. From which How far back from the date of the
debt
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