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16 July 1798 Police Report
N.S. Wales
deferenda
Where dominion
is concerned,
men cling to
a dead burthen,
with as
much pertinacity, obstinate an
attachment as if
it were a revenue
It is for the
preservation of this
luxury, the aliment
to food of the ambition
of the
governing classes
amongst us,
that we levy
laxes on Salt
Coals, and other
necessaries of
life, taxes upon
medicine, taxes
upon justice, &
other taxes upon
distress: for were
we to rid ourselves
of the £137000
a year which
it costs us to
keep in action
this engine of
punishment,
£137,000 a
year. no inconsiderable
portion
of the sum collection
of the produce
of all those
several taxes
might be remitted.
To judge
of the utility of
any expense,
compare it with
the burthen of
a proportionable
part of the
amount of the
most oppressive
tax: for by giving
up the one, the
other may be saved.
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Expenses of the
mischief of delinquency
These tiny expenses
falling on
individuals are
not at present
known: nor can
the knowledge of
them be procured obtained
otherwise than by
invitation
Expenses - Fund
1. Cases in which
the public is obliged
to bear the
expense of prosecution -
or there
would be no prosecution
2. Cases where it is
obliged not only
to indemnify but
to prosecution -
Smuggling
&c
3. Cases in which
there is that
interest the
while raise up
prosecution among
individuals in
ability not being
wanton
4. The expense of
prosecuting ought
not to be left
in any case to
bear upon the individual -
The
service is rendered
to the public. It
is a tax upon
distress, & upon
monstrous .
5. But the public
must fund for its
prosecutions
its own manager:
Individuals if
their Sollicitors
Bills were paid,
would make business,
for the sake of
the Sollicitor.
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