★ Find a new page on our Untranscribed Manuscripts list.
+ Cd 19 289
Preliminary
Observations
1. Licentiandi
Conveyance
practice. Under the existing system of laws, one sort species of article
will on rea by reason of the superior difficulty
of concealing it or what is done with to it, bear a
much heavier tax than another: and under an
improved system of laws no article but what might
be made to bear a much heavier tax than it does
at present [+] [+] The made produced to the revenue by subjecting the applying by the application of the powers of the Excise laws to the two branches of the Revenue which concern Wine and Tobacco is a proof as conspicuous as it is undeniable affords at the same time a perspicacious illustration as well as an undeniable evidence of this truth. Many are the prejudices, the vulgar errors,
and those of the most groundless as well as pernicious
nature, by which the dispensations operations of justice
in relation to this branch of the natural resources
are obstructed: these prejudices partly though artifice, partly through honest error it is a principal
and constant study of the enemies of the country to forment
and strengthen by every with their means in their power upon
all occasions with their utmost industry. Every institution
which tends to give strength and efficacy to the laws will
be attacked with an a degree of violence every institution
which tends to weaken them defended with a degree of
, exactly in proportion to that tendency:
and the present proposed system has too much efficiency
in it in every branch, and especially in
that which are has points with particular aim
against insurrection and rebellion (I mean that which
concern the manner of instrument supply of the means of offence defence and
offence, arms and ammunition) in not to entitle itself
to be made taken for the object of their most strenuous attacks.
Identifier: | JB/150/753/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 150. |
|||
---|---|---|---|
150 |
police bill |
||
753 |
|||
001 |
|||
text sheet |
1 |
||
recto |
d19 / f29 |
||
jeremy bentham |
g & ep 1794 |
||
fr3 |
|||
1794 |
|||
50974 |
|||