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Police Revenue Bill <note> <note>Preliminary
Observations

Arms
Edged & pointed
Weapons

considerable numbers, without governments knowing
where to find it them, treasonable conferances
can never be to be apprehended, so long as Government
posseses the affection of the majority
of the people. From small swords though [+] inefficient useless
for every purpose of national defence as well as offence,
are constitute in that account but the same proper and
unexceptionable the object of taxation. Till within
these ten years a tax on small swords could have been a tax
on gentlemen in general: at present it would be nothing but a tax on courtiers, who have no business to be so, unless they can afford it,
[+] It is with a view to the practices of malefactors
of the predatory class that the utility
of that proposed tax so far which concerns fire-arms as edged and pointed fire-arms
was concerned may appear most
questionable. Whatever robberies are performed committed
it is better for the persons to them that
the instrument employed should be a pistol or
other fire-arm, than that it should be an
instrument belonging to the class of edged and pointed
weapons. A pistol when ever actually bought
into action loses for that time its power of scaring
may linger either for offence or defence: it will act thereof
in general therefore, it will not then be thus employ'd, it will not
be fired off, but at the last extremity. In the
case of an edged or pointed weapon, whatever mischief
may have been already be done by it, the power of continuing to do
mischief with it, is not will not be at all diminished.
In Accordingly in the present practice with pistols, a pistol
is seldom fired at a man before the question is
put

[+] a mere remnant of barbarous luxury and ostentation, useless and inefficient [+] There is another observation consideration which may add to the arguments that plead in favour of the proposed that branch of the tax on which concerns edged and pointed weapons.

Identifier: | JB/150/747/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	16
Box	150	Main Headings	police bill
Folio number	747	Info in main headings field	police revenue bill
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d13 / f23
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	g & ep 1794
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	fr3
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1794
Notes public		ID Number	50968
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