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Police Revenue Bill
Preliminary Observations
Arms
Edged & pointed
Weapons
a single gun, blunderbuss or pistol: not above 4 2/5th
parts, viz: 7d, for a pair of pistols. A watch is
not less necessary to one who is not a non- housekeeper
than to a housekeeper: a man who is not a
housekeeper especially if he has so low a circumstances
that a tax of 6d or 7d a year would be more than he could
bear, can scarce have any good occasion to keep
swords or guns. Another thing is that for For twenty people persons who
keep watches, there probably is scarcely one who
keeps a sword or pistol. All things considered there
does not seem therefore to be any any the least danger that the trade in
arms should undergo suffer any natural detriment from
the operation of any such duty as is proposed: and so
far as the trade did sustain a check (which would be likewise <add>again
but a momentary one) so far that head of mischief <add> article of disadvantage
would be compensated by the advantage of keeping
the article instrument of it out of dangerous and improper hands.
The time too, viz: war time would constitute another
head of difference to the advantage of the proposed tax.
War time, a season of itself disadvantageous to the
watch trade, as well as to every other peaceful branch of trade, is
disadvantageous to every branch of the arm-
trade: any little check given to it could therefore
be in proportion the less felt: it would be — not, as
in the case of the watch-tax, an enhancement of adversity,
but only a defalcation, and that a slight
one, from the amount of extraordinary prosperity.
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jeremy bentham |
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