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Preliminary Observations Police Revenue Bill

Licence
Gunpowder Materials
Gunpowder a
fair object of taxation
Street Fireworks

4. Among the collateral advantages of such a tax
is its operating as a check upon the idle and
dangerous practice of throwing squibs and crackers
in the street — a practice the a diversion which
a practice which would not afford any diversion, but
for the annoyance and terror and danger of which it is productive.

5. In its prohibitive restrictive tendency the tax would operate
in and of the laws against practising — by increasing
the expence of that attending the exercise of that destructive and corruptive branch of industry.

6. In the restraint it would impose upon the accumulation
of the means of carrying into execution giving effect to
projects of sedition and rebellion all that are of the
two in the character of a measure of finance, and
the use of it in the character of a measure of police,
would give strength and efficacy in each other.
In The quantities manufacturers the and the pre of the article manufactured would [+] [+] according to a capital and important observation made by the Author of the System, be much be much more vigilantly
registered watched and accurately registered, than
if police alone were the object, and not revenue. The
produce of the duty operates as a sort of premium given to the
man of finance for his exertions in the service of the Police (a) (a) insert a note from the next page

7. The keeping and carriage of this have
already been made the subject matter object of regulation [+] and among the regulations no is included the requisition of a licence: By 12.G.3.c.61. but in respect of the object
in view the regulations have confined themselves to the
prevention of mischief by pure accident. The licence
is under power of granting the licence is given to
the Magistracy in General Sessions, and no licence duty
is imposed.

h
Proviso for
Uses in mining

Gunpowder is sometimes made use of as an instrument
of mechanical power in Mines and Quarries.
Should the rate of duty that would otherwise be inferred be
regarded as prejudicial to this use, then the pressure of
the overplus might easily be removed by a suitable drawback.

Identifier: | JB/150/736/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	[[marginal_summary_numbering::[unnumbered], 4]]
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	736	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / f14
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"insert a note from the next page" [note in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	50957
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