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<HEAD>AN EXPEDIENT, <HI>Which with an Ea&s;ier Burden to the Subject may rai&s;e an Equi|valent to the</HI> Salt-Duty, <HI>if that be laid a&s;ide.</HI></HEAD>
<P>THAT every Man, Woman, and Child, pay Four Pence <HI>per An.</HI></P>
<P>If there be Eight Millions of People in <HI>England,</HI> this will amount to One Hundred Thirty Three Thou&s;and, Three Hundred Thirty Three Pounds and a Noble, which is more then the Salt Duty brings at pre&s;ent.</P>
<P N="1">I. <HI>Object.</HI> A <HI>Poll Tax</HI> is accounted to lie very hard on Poor People.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Salt lies much harder on them, they feeding much on Bacon. There are I believe very few People, who pay le&s;s then Eighteen Pence <HI>per An.</HI> for the Salt they eat, more then they were <HI>wont</HI> to do before this Duty.</P>
<P N="2">II. <HI>Object.</HI> If a Groat <HI>per An. per</HI> Head, afford 133333 <HI>l. 6s. 8d.</HI> then Four Shillings <HI>per</HI> Head <HI>per An.</HI> will con&s;equently afford Sixteen Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds, and at this Rate the <HI>Poll-Tax,</HI> at Four Shillings <HI>per</HI> Head would amount thereto.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> In the <HI>Poll-Tax,</HI> Poor People who receive Alms, and the Children of Day Labourers, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> are excepted.</P>
<P N="3">III. <HI>Object.</HI> It can't be expected &s;uch as receive Alms of the Pari&s;h, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> &s;hould pay the Four Pence <HI>per</HI> Head.</P>
<P><HI>An&s;.</HI> The Pari&s;h may pay for them, 'Twill be ea&s;ier to the Pari&s;h to pay Four Pence <HI>per</HI> Head for their Poor, then to make the Poor pay &s;o dear for their Salt; indeed the Burden of this lies chiefly on tho&s;e who maintain the Poor; &s;uch as can't keep them&s;elves are &s;upported by the Pari&s;h, and the Pari&s;h had better pay a Groat <HI>per</HI> Head, then a Shilling <HI>per</HI> Head, which at lea&s;t they do for the mo&s;t part, now Salt is &s;o dear.</P>
<P N="4">IV. <HI>Object.</HI> How can it be ordered &s;o as that every body pay a Groat?</P>
<P><HI>An&s;w.</HI> By ordering every Pari&s;h to give in an Alphabetical Li&s;t of all its Inhabitants, this being Printed, and expo&s;ed to publick View, by po&s;ting it up in its re&s;pective Pari&s;h, and in &s;ome Neighbouring Pari&s;hes, in the mo&s;t convenient Places of re&s;ort in the &s;aid Pari&s;hes, 'twill ea&s;ily appear who are Taxed and who are not; and in Ca&s;e a Penalty be, That every one who is not Taxed within the Year, pay Treble what he ought to pay, one half to the Informer, the other half to the Queen, but few if any are like to e&s;cape Taxing.</P>
<P>As this will ea&s;e the Country, &s;o likewi&s;e will it at once remedy all the Inconveniencies accompanying the <HI>Salt-Duty,</HI> and be <HI>a great help to Trade in many Re&s;pects.</HI></P>
<P>That a Tax on <HI>Candles</HI> at Two Pence <HI>per</HI> Pound, may rai&s;e half a Million Sterling <HI>per An.</HI> 'Tis &s;uppo&s;ed that in <HI>England</HI> are killed yearly upwards of Two Millions of Neats, &s;ome whereof afford the Tallow-Chandler about Eight or Nine Stone of Tallow, and &s;ome about Two Stone; but &s;uppo&s;ing that one with another, they afford Four Stone each, altogether will amount to Eight Millions of Stones. The Sheep killed may afford at lea&s;t one Fourth of what the Neats yield; for altho a dozen Sheep afford not &s;o much Tallow as one Neat, yet they much exceeding in Number, may afford as above &s;aid, altogether about Ten Millions of Stones to the Tallow-Chandler. This at Two Pence <HI>per</HI> Pound, will amount to near Seven Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds Sterling.</P>
<P>An Expedient propo&s;ed how this may be rai&s;ed without extravagant Charge to the Publick.</P>
<P>That &s;ome Towns in each County be appointed whereto every one who makes Candles, &s;hall be obliged Fir&s;t to bring, weigh, and enter his Tallow before he u&s;e it, he to be allowed Two Pence <HI>per</HI> Stone for his trouble of bringing it upwards of Six Miles, and a Penny <HI>per</HI> Stone for all he brings le&s;s then Six Miles. This will eat out about three half Pence <HI>per</HI> Stone, and not much more, if it be &s;o laid out, as that none be obliged to carry his Tallow above Twelve Miles to be entred.</P>
<P>That Two Pence <HI>per</HI> Stone Drawback, be allowed to every Tallow-Chandler for Prompt Payment, in Ca&s;e he pay his Duty at the weighing of his Tallow, &s;o this will bring down the Exci&s;e in clear Money to about Twelve-Pence <HI>per</HI> Stone, which amounts in the whole at this Rate to about Five Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds. Every one being obliged to carry his Tallow to the Place appointed, and there to enter and pay for it, 'twill require little or no charge to collect it.</P>
<P>If a Penalty be laid on &s;uch as tran&s;gre&s;s in Non-Entry of what they u&s;e, of paying about Four|fold for what they &s;o u&s;e for the Fir&s;t Offence, double as much for the Second Offence, and for the Third Offence, to be incapacitated from making and vending Candles, this may in great mea&s;ure prevent and perhaps remedy all or mo&s;t Frauds.</P>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e few will grutch giving Two Pence <HI>per</HI> Pound extraordinary for their Candles, if they thought 'twould rai&s;e Five Hundred Thou&s;and Pounds <HI>per An.</HI> to the Publick.</P>
<P>Six Pence <HI>per</HI> Pound may be laid on Wax-Candles, not becau&s;e 'tis like to rai&s;e much Money, but if nothing be laid on that &s;ort of Candles, when Tallow-Candles are about Eight Pence <HI>per</HI> Pound, People will be apt to u&s;e Wax-Candles, unle&s;s a Duty be laid on them.</P>
<P>None of the&s;e Expedients will wa&s;t much Money on Exci&s;e Officers, who are the Bane of mo&s;t Taxes. Indeed about one Eight part that will ari&s;e from the Tallow, which is for carrying to and fro, is a Charge to the Country; Howbeit 'tis dilated and expended in the Country, and does not extend any thing near to the Charge expended in Collecting other Exci&s;es.</P>
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<P>AN EXPEDIENT, How to Remedy the Inconveniencies of the <HI>Salt-Duty,</HI> and how to rai&s;e 500000 <HI>l. per An.</HI> from Candles.</P>
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