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II Cd + Inserenda (D) Observations | Licentiands 21
Preliminary
Observations II Police Revenue Bill II
Gunpowder &c
Arms
&c
Artillery
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Duty on Artillery
Its advantages as
imposed with the other
burthen
the proposed duty on Producers <add> Artillery is alluded with
As a part only of the advantages derivable from the
proposed duties on Gunpowder attach ad
to those</add>
a part only of the advantages resulting from the duties on that class of Fire-arms which comprised under
proposed duties on Small arms. It has no operation the name of small arms, so a part only of these adhere
for the proposed duties on Trial guns and other Artillery.
these latter <gap/. to operation A tax on this latter article has no operation
with regard to practising: [+] [+] it has as little application to malefactors of the predatory class. but it remains good against
the mischief of civil war, and it is still
from objection than the purest of the two preceding foregoing
measures.
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the case in
compliance to
. prohibition
of export
of artillery.
in as far as it was were borne by nature, it would
be a very gentle and equable equal two, diffusing half,
like a Post-duty, in the most equable, proposition of
ever the whole mass of foreign trade. In as far as it
were borne by foreigners, it would operate as an casement
method without pressure: and of the any danger
of its operating in the war of a prohibition and a restraint
on this branch of trade might easily be obviated by the known
expedient of a drawback
The salutariness of the Law empowering the existive
Government to prohibit upon occasion the expectation
of Arms and ammunition to foreign countries has
never been disputed. Those laws would derive a
great accession of efficiency from the laws here proposed. A constant account current of the stock
coming in, going out, and remaining in hand being
thus kept up, not an article could be sent out of the
country without being missed.
Identifier: | JB/150/745/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. |
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jeremy bentham |
j whatman |
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admiral pavel chichagov |
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