JB/087/034/001

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Indirect Legislation

Political 21

7. Against emigration
by artificers

7. It could likewise be of considerable efficacy in
preventing the emigration of artificers, and the
like: if ever it can be eligible consist in the utility to render the country a prison to the most valuable of it's inhabitants.
(a) (a) Class. 4. Division
Offences against
population.

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8. Its use in
facilitating the
numbering of the
people

Under this head too it may be worth noticing
that this in the operating business of numbering the people
the expedient of making by fixing the personality
of each individual will give may be a
means of giving a degree of exactness to the operation,
which it would be scarce practicable to
give it by any other means.

23 Disadvantages
of such a measure:
1. it would probably
be unpopular

By way of counterbalance to all these
advantages good effects it would be open to two capital
objections. [In the first place there is] the danger
of it's being disrelished by the people: [in the next
place there is] the danger of it's being favourable
to tyranny by throwing too mcuh power into the
hands of a bad an arbitrary government, and rendering the

Identifier: | JB/087/034/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	21-25
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	034	Info in main headings field	indirect legislation
Image	001	Titles	note
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	/ / f23 / f24
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::r williams [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	c. hamilton
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27559
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