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fixed one – but a variable one calculated
by addi eventual addition to the free price to
ensure the sufficiency of the aggregate price. This
aggregate price was what was looked upon by
government as adequate to the purpose of
attracting into this country the whole of the quantity
that was regarded as obtainable at any price.
This aggregate price then is what might
consistently have been the fixed upon and made
the maximum price, without incurring that
part of the inconvenience at least which consists
in diminishing the quantity obtainable from
foreign parts.

This security – this supply – such as it
was – and obtained as it was – was not certainly
obtained without expence money: it was not
obtained without laying a proportionable burthen
on the community: the advantage which this
burthen dirct mode of assessing the burthen
instead of the abovementioned indirect one abovementioned
– is, that it rested it on the broadest
basis – on the whole community taken together,
instead of that part of it which is composed of
the contributors to the Poor Rates. Even supposing
the contributors to be precisely the same persons and
assessed in precisely the same proportions in both
cases, the burthen would still be much higher
and that in a proport prodigious degree – in one
case than in the other. The amount of it might
by

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	003	Main Headings	manual of political economy
Folio number	177	Info in main headings field	maximum
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	1587
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