JB/150/748/001

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Police Revenue Bill Preliminary Observations
Arms
Edged & Pointed
Weapons

put to him whether he will surrender: redress
it is found, and found without effect, the robber
having no other the reason of the robber being
exhausted with the fury of those his
affair that in has nothing left but flight for
his security. Were pistols to be discarded and
cutlasses employed for the purpose <add> on these occasions in their room, the cutlass,
it seems probable, would frequently be employed
in the first instance and without any question
put: particularly where the person assaulted
appeared to be be well qualified either for flight or
for or for flight. If then edged
and pointed weapons were left out of the plan,
which pistols were included in it, the tax duty on the
latter would operate as a kind of bounty on the
former: and in as far as it operated as a check or prohibition
it would by checking the use of the less pernicious
species of weapon of the two, promotes the use of the most pernicious.

17
The objections to
the Watch Tax
apply not to the
present case.

The fate of the Watch tax which promised so
well as principles may appear at first sight to
afford an argument against the proposed taxes on arms.
But the cases are widely different. For, besides that
nor is nothing to be gained by checking the use of
watches, or knowing who it is that wears or how many there
are that wear watches, the tax on watches was such as
warranted operated in that event (little as it were to have been
expected) in a great degree in the character of a prohibition.
In the instance of arms no such result
is to be apprehended. The amount of the duty is not proposed
to be near so high as the amount of the duty on the lower priced
sort of watches: instead of 2d 6, not above 1/5 part — viz: 6d, for

Identifier: | JB/150/748/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	17
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	748	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d14 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50969
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