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The most effectual method to prevent
smuggling, where in the instances , if any where, it is practicable,
is doubtless to take the tax impost
off the commodity, & impose it in respect of that commodity upon
the consumer; thus taking away at once
the object + the real object in contradistinction to the personaland the motive to the transgression offence.
belonging to the head [coming under the idea of Indirect Legislation
Another expedient however, might be of
some use, as a means to diminish keep under the
smuggling & through a ristraint of importation.
There is a certain size portion of the number of sizes in vessels peculiarly
adapted to the purposes of this illicit
traffic; that is there is a size, above
which vessels would not be able to make
their way in those places whither the
occasions of it call them: & below which
they would not be able to live in the seas or
to carry as much at a time as would make it worth
their while to venture
In vessels of this size, as of every other, there
is a certain form & method of equipment,
adapted to the giving them the maximum
of celerity.
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This maximum, tho' to a certain degree
convenient, is not necessary, nor indeed is
it usual and practise to be obtained by
vessels employed in lawful traffic.
Let therefore this form & method of
equipment adapted to it's production,
be exclusively appropriated to those of the King's
ships which are employ'd in the pursuit
of smugglers; & at the same time, let
all other vessels within these limits in respect of size be debarred from of it, such
a form & mode of equipment +if such there be being
prescribed to all such vessels, as shall
give a sufficient advantage in point
of celerity to the pursuers, at the same
that it exposes not vessels imbarkdemploy'd
in lawful trade to any dis-advantage:+at least to any disadvantage adequate &c adequate
to the advantage gained by the suppressing cramping
of the illicit trade to that degree and which
their expedient may be a means of cramping
it. it may be done by this means
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At the same time, if thought necessary, power
might be given to the proper persons offices to
grant licence +under such res-trictions as shall be thought necessary to a few particular persons
to employ adopt the construction so appropriated construction
upon condition of entering into a recognizance
with a certain number of sureties, to a
certain large sum, forfeitable upon proof
of the licensed vessel having been employd tho' without
proof of the owner's special assent+ the various con-sent being to be declared -ipso facto preferable unless the contrary appear, in
any illicit traffic.
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