JB/150/515/001

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Police Revenue Bill
III. Licensing
§.23
68
User of stamps
for the Licence
duties left optimal
why

§. 9. [ 1 ] [ Impressed by stamps or otherwise ] p. 13.
Hitherto, I believe without any exception with few without any exception that I recollect
if any exceptions, in the several instances of licence
Duties, the sums expressive of the amount of the
duty have been impressed by stamps. The One reason
why a latitude is proposed to be given for departing from that
practice in the present instance is - that the number
of different sums, resulting from the Bye-
licences, grantable for fractions of the year, with
proportionable rates of duty, might come to be so
great as to render that mode an uneconomical
one. Under the an authority such as that which is here given, the Commissioners
will would adopt or reject it in such manner
and degree as they find to be found most advantageous
upon the whole. No danger it is of any kind
can, it is conceived, result from the latitude thus
giv proposed to be given in that respect. Powers
for varying the stamps from time to time, are given
in the original Stamp Act of the 5th of W. 3d.
and in subsequent Acts (as stated in the Preliminary Observations). If Another reason
is (though it may
perhaps be deemed appear
a fanciful one) is
that, if
too much stress were
laid upon the stamps (which in the nature of the case are a merely
accidental concomitant of the business) - if for example
it were peremptorily required that stamps
should be employ'd ( a requisition from which no advantage could,
( it is conceived ) result) it might perhaps be thought
to give the existing Stamp-Office a claim to the business
destined to the proposed Board or at least would
cause the institution of the Board to be regarded perhaps by
the Stamp-Office as a sort of encroachment upon
their province.

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Identifier: | JB/150/515/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	68
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	515	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d19 / f91
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50736
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