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Police Report
Occupations to be licensed.
Keepers of Lodging Houses. As objects of
taxation no occupations could be worse
chosen. Those who let out The circumstance that distin The circumstance
by which those that let out each of them a part
of his house to strangers is not superiority from those who
but inferiority in point occupy each of them the whole of his house to himself
is not superiority but inferiority in point
of affluence: instead of taxation they would
be fitter objects of exemption from other taxes,
and unless the complication of adjusting the
tax to the that portion of time during which
the lodging had been tenanted, a lodging so
little seldom tenanted as to produce no profit would
be taxed as high as the most constantly tenanted
and productive.
The use and only use of a licence in the
instance of this numerous class is kind by
means of the controul it would create they
might be engaged to furnish such information
respecting the with regard to their respective lodgers as might
the tracing out afford a degree of facility
at present unknown for tracing out the distrust
of all descriptions. Partly for this
partly for other purposes It This would be an
advantage in dividing them into classes
distinguished by the price of the lodging and thence by the degree of respectability of
the House, because there are certain classes
which on account of their including a more
delin greater proportion of delinquents
than others, will require to be looked to
with a more attentive eye. For the more
effectually marking and keeping up the distinction
a different there may be a use in allotting
a different quantum of duty to each class, but for [+] this
[+] this purpose a scale of
duty as low as from
1s a year to 3s or 4s might
suffice, 6d & no more
being the common difference.
Sixpence the
highest sum that would
ever be at stake would
not afford an object of
worth litigation even where
the distinction between class &
class was most dubious.
Identifier: | JB/150/418/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. |
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150 |
panopticon versus new south wales; police bill |
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418 |
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text sheet |
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jeremy bentham |
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50639 |
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