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Observations
IV Regulations
§ 30
82 continued
Marking Metals

To come at the end of the writing such as the Section (p.76)
of the Observations
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As a first glance The operation of making these marks may perhaps
present itself as attended with

As To a first glance, the vexation and expence
attendant in the operation of making the proposed
marks may perhaps present itself as constituting
a mass of inconvenience more than equivalent to any
the benefit derivable from of this clause. But, to judge by comparison what
with has been already done by Parliament in the case of Paper, the least objection
drawn from this will hardly be regarded as conclusive.
By the Paper Hanging Import- Duty
Act (34.G.c.54 §.1.) every piece of Paper
coloured Paper imported into Great Britain, though it
should be less than 1/2 a yard in length, is to be
stamped at one end; and if it be of that length or
more, at both ends. The rate of duty on pink paper so imported
is ( by the New Table of Importation duties 27.G.3.c.13) 75 per cent ad valorim:
three quarters of the value: The trouble of putting two
stamps is therefore thought not too great for the servicing
of a duty payment which may not amount to above a penny
or three halfpence. The smallest mass, ever imported
in the way of merchandize, of the least valuable species
of metal viz: iron, can not but be worth a great many
times as much as the least valuable many a one of these pieces
of paper.

The trouble of difficulty and trouble of impressing a
mark upon so hard a substance so much harder than as every metal as
paper, and from which every mark merely superficial which (like
that on paper) were to be merely superficial would be apt to undergo so speedy an
obliteration from the mere action of the atmosphere may
in the case of iron present itself as another head ground of objection in relation to the present instance purpose.
But

Identifier: | JB/150/532/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	82 continued
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	532	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / f108
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50753
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