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LARCENY — DOGS. 2

a check to the unprofitable consumption of provisions. 2dly lessening restraining the term of
the national danger from Canine madness — + + It is to be observed however that<lb?> these two advantages are not
obtained but at the proportionate
expence of that branch of the
Leather Manufactory. ||
|| The truth is
It seems probable there wil would not
be many fewer dogs reared than
there are are now: but those that are
reared without being insured, being
raised in contemplation of the probability
of their being ,
the owners will not set their affections
so strongly as at present; so that
the gain on the will be <add.</add>
the saving of the of the <add> traders of of dogs at whose expence this branch of the Leather is chiefly carried on at present.
the carrying out of that branch of the Leather Trade with less to the owners of dogs this sort of property than it is at present. 3dly bringing an accession to
the revenue 4thly throwing off to the extent of that accession the burthen
from necessaries upon Luxuries. 5 discouraging the poor from wasting their time in these pursuits

purchases the protection
of the Law

These advantages it apprehended all in some be This advantage which is the desideration on <add> of the present enquiry would it is apprehended</add>
completely the others in a greater or less degree be attained <add> accomplished, by a moderate
Tax up[on these animals, the quantum of which within certain bounds should be
variable, at the pleasure of the [contibutable/contributor]: a measure of taxation which however singular
& paradoxical it may appear at firstblush. glance, will be allowed to be the most desired
of all where (if any it was) in the instances where (if in any) it can be applied, [and will be asked seen to be] as well as the only
one whereby the depredation just mentioned is to be accomplished.

Let therefore every dog which ,del>its' owner shall abuse to pay for; be valued at 6d a penalty out of a shilling be upon every <add> the all valuing dog which each</add>
<?Del> person shall think proper to set upon his dog from 6 shillings at
least to £4 at the most; each value to be exprest upon a Collar marked
with a public stamp, a or destroyer to suffer</del and to be the occasion of the
on the or destroyer

Qu/ how has the provision
allowing Rabbits to be killed<lb?> near the in Lincoln Inn
answer'd again of the
of the

It is well known how more, according to the absence or pressure
of an attachment to these animals, & to the exercise
to which different of these are differently instruments
divide into parties, which upon (a recent) have given
marks of having taken a great interest in the <gap/ subject that of
would seem to promise.

If there is a weak place left
in the Law, sooner or later
the industry of men's passions
will find it out: although it
may not have been ought found not
at the time when one as

By the one it has been insisted, & it should seem unreasonably that there
is no reason why this of should be disposed of the protection of the Law,
and extended to others others often of no greater & even of much inferior value enjoy.

By others it has been insisted [for some one or more of the reasons that have
justly referable to the title of Luxuries, and are
in the lower labouring class of pernicious in all of unprofitable dissipation, would
admit with great propriety of a taxation, agreeably to the maxim which is ever to a
closely pursued in proportion as the greatest good of the greatest number is made the maintenance of quality is made of the object
object, to throw off as much as may be the burthen of taxation from those articles of necessity which are that
used employed in these articles with which cannot not or ought not to [intermeddle].

The Scheme Expedient proposed which may be considered as a kind of Insurance open'd by Government for this species
of purport against depredation is as calculated to inculcate <add> requite & both these x x x x x x x x:
but besides that the success of it could be reckoned upon with [any] confidence before experiment
requires an apparatus of prosecutions & penalties to give it carry it through, of which those whom
it may concern will consider whether the it be such to which the subject is adequate.

Bar to a conviction if the
in question of time owner can't shew the Collar to have <add>either that the Collar was off at the time
been omitted for a day together
<add>
? will be
to the
article
A man may seize a dog and
have it condemned by carrying it
<gap/. without to
a Justice of Peace who if a
Collar is produced by the owner
on summons must return it
to the owner on payment of so
much <add> to the seizer, either 5s — otherwise adjudges it
to the seizer.

Owners path that the dog is
a </del. taxed dog and that he does</del. the
not believes that he Collar
was not at any where to his knowledge
of the dog but that he
believes it was on the dog
at the time of the taking to
be conclusive in his favour: for
it is not to be presumed that
a man enabled to keep a dog
probably therefore having a
fixed residence would perjure
himself for 5s.

Identifier: | JB/070/255/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 70.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	070	Main Headings	of laws in general
Folio number	255	Info in main headings field	larceny - dogs
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