JB/071/036/004

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12 C

Extortion

From p. 4 It is to be observed that the establishment
of an office with fees annexed to it is one way
of laying on a tax. Now then there the the value of such fees of
this kind either are is greater than the least sum
which a fit person would do the service for, or
it is not. If not, then is the tax a tax strictly
appropriated to the ser service for which it is
raised. If it is greater, either the state
fund by receives from the officer an equivalent from for the difference,
or it does not. If it does, this equivalent
stands upon the footing of the produce of any
other tax. If not, that difference is to be consider'd
as a kind of pension which without
any thing done for it, is paid over to the
officer pensioner at the same instant, at which it is received
by the first receives it.

Some times officers have been
Sometimes services unnecessary in themselves
have been render'd necessary: the business of performing
them has been made the duty of an
office, to which the right of exacting such and
such settled fees, or as much as the officer can make
the contributors give him, has been annex'd.
This it is plain is purely and simply a roundabout
way of imposing a tax. And it is generally more disadvantageous
since in several particulars than the common

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Identifier: | JB/071/036/004"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 71.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	071	Main Headings	penal code
Folio number	036	Info in main headings field	extortion
Image	004	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f9 / f10 / f11 / f12
Penner		Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	23439
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