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<note>Rewarding<lb/>E India<lb/></note><p>Might not a hint be <sic>borrow'd</sic> <add>taken</add> from this principle, for <add>towards</add> the obtaining a somewhat chance<lb/>of good government in the British conquests in<lb/>the East Indies: a country which I take for <add>merely as</add> an<lb/>example of a subordinate dominion <add>province</add>, over <add>in</add> which<lb/><del>the</del> owing to the distance of place, the authority <lb/>of the local <add>subordinate</add> government must be ample, &<lb/>the <sic>controul</sic> it is subject to in the way of punishment<lb/><del>tedious</del> tardy and precarious.<lb/></p><note>there upon the revenues<lb/>but qu: whether<lb/>upon the whole <lb/>But the revenue not <lb/>so good as <add>upon</add> the population.</note><p>During the second government of L<hi rend="superscript">d</hi> Clive<lb/>a regulation was made by the council of Calcutta<lb/>in virtue of which a considerable part of the salaries<lb/>of the members of that government bore a certain<lb/>proportion to the amount of a particular branch<lb/>of the revenue, the duty upon salt. That [the<lb/>tendency <add>the power</add> of this arrangement to this arrangement <add>would be great in</add><lb/>would tend strongly to render that particular branch<lb/>of the revenue production [and that in the highest<lb/>degree] <add>is what</add> one can hardly doubt: But this was but <lb/>one branch of the revenue and that not the most <lb/>considerable. <add>Accordingly</add> It would be an obvious enough idea<lb/> <note>to</note></p> | |||
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Indirect
Rewarding
E India
Might not a hint be borrow'd taken from this principle, for towards the obtaining a somewhat chance
of good government in the British conquests in
the East Indies: a country which I take for merely as an
example of a subordinate dominion province, over in which
the owing to the distance of place, the authority
of the local subordinate government must be ample, &
the controul it is subject to in the way of punishment
tedious tardy and precarious.
there upon the revenues
but qu: whether
upon the whole
But the revenue not
so good as upon the population.
During the second government of Ld Clive
a regulation was made by the council of Calcutta
in virtue of which a considerable part of the salaries
of the members of that government bore a certain
proportion to the amount of a particular branch
of the revenue, the duty upon salt. That [the
tendency the power of this arrangement to this arrangement would be great in
would tend strongly to render that particular branch
of the revenue production [and that in the highest
degree] is what one can hardly doubt: But this was but
one branch of the revenue and that not the most
considerable. Accordingly It would be an obvious enough idea
to
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