objection to such payments
is felt in all Colonies with
peculiar force, and in
this
Ever ...
authority
and influence of our
popular Legislature. On the
other hand
a
fertile source
of Public Income may
be opened in the form of indirect Taxation, and
especially by modifying
port duties on
Spirituous
and fermented liquors,
Tobacco.
and
Sugar, Tea and
every
British
Colony similar imports of these
kind
are
made to sustain
an impost for consumption
in the Island South;
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a
large part of the Public
Expenditure .
15 But in order to raise
a
duty of
Customs
on
Spirituous liquors it is
necessary to prohibit the
internal distillation
or manufacture of
the same. If
this be long delayed
claims
for indemnity will grow up
which it may be impossible
to satisfy
To prohibit
distillation is therefore
amongst the first of the fiscal measures to which
You will have recourse.
16. The Land Revenue