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as

may be required from time to time in the service itself.

Any profit derived

from

service, except when so

the

applied,

constitutes a special tax upon

:

that section of the public

which makes use

of the service, from which the remaining portion of the community is exempt, while a deficit is — equivalent to a taxe upon the whole community for the~ benefit of one portion of it,

vir those who send and re-

ceive

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ceive correspondence through the Post. This is so manifestly fair that tariffs are invariably so arranged as to guard against. such a possibility, with the re sult that the profit may

be

and frequently is considerably

in excess

of the amount re- quired for improvements in

the Postal Service, the balance

going

venue.

to swell the general re

A deduction of 175% from

such revenue as

might be

raised

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