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Police Revenue Bill Preliminary
Observations Arms
Edged and
pointed weapons 15.
The system as applied
to Edged &
Pointed weapons
— its advantages
with reference
as above

It is in the The instance of such arms as come under the the class of arms that stands last upon
the list,"viz" such as come under the denomination of edged and pointed weapons is that
in which the advantage of including it in the
system of registration and taxation is least considerable
and most dubious. With a view to
war, civil and as well as foreign, it this branch of the system is of less importance
in proportion as the class of arms in question is
of less importance in comparison of gunpowder and fire-arms.
and the species of powder required at the giving
them effective : and it does nothing with regard
to accidents or poaching. the Advantages
it proposes appear however sufficient to recommend however which it does <add> are not wanting possess are still such as appear
it with sufficient to warrant justify the adoption of it: Cutlasses and
Sabres not employed in the Naval and Cavalry
branches of warlike service. Pikes, partly by
their the frailty and cheapness of their fabrication construction
partly by their supposed efficiency, resulting
in the opinion of some scarcely yielding to that of fire-arms, are
an implement so unhappily well adapted to
the purpose of insurrection and civil war that
the finding an implement article of this kind in any
House, has in Ireland been regarded as p
as conclusive proof of treasonable conduct or
designs on the part of the benefactor of the House.
Let no pikes any more than any other species
of military weapon exist any where in the country any
consideration

Identifier: | JB/150/746/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	15
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	746	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d12 / f22
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	50967
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