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Police Bill

Observations

[ 24 ] [ Class twenty three second ] p. 14. If dealers in the several
parts entering into the composition of a fire-arm gun &c
were not included, the provisions might be compleatly
evaded by taking the gun &c to pieces, and selling
it in that state.

[ ] In any greater number than The use of this clause
is to exempt persons from the Duty and the embarrassment
attending it, persons who not being of the trade may be disposed to
make arms in the way of experiment and with a
view to improvement.

[ 25 ] Class twenty-seventh sixth ] p. 16. Lodging Houses Letters of Lodging.]
The utility expediency of including these three classes the
of Letters of Lodgings ( distinguished distributed, according
to the Instructions, into three classes determined by the yearly value
of the House ) seems to depend altogether upon the uses
that can be derived may be derivable from it for the purpose of Police:
viz: the obtaining information with the regard to the
persons and character of the Lodgers. Considered with a view to finance merely
In a financial point of view scarce any class could
be a less proper object for taxation; letting of lodgings
being always a mark of comparative indigence, never
a source of affluence. If, a man succeeding in his
endeavours to get lodgers, a man in this way admitts strangers into
his house, it is because he can scarcely keep his without so doing he can not or
house is altogether unable, or at least unable without inconvenience, to
keep his house; and, if he fails in those his endeavours,
he is still worse of it is he is still less
able to bear the tax. The licence duty should thereof
be no higher than what is looked upon as barely sufficient to fix attract
the attention of government to the business, by so ordering
it in such matters, that any want of attention to
the compleatness of the register thus established for Police purposes,
shall be followed and indicated by a proportionable
deficiency in the Revenue.

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Identifier: | JB/150/666/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	666	Info in main headings field	part i observations police bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f17
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals		Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public	[[notes_public::"not used" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	50887
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