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A scheme plainly demonstrating how several hundred thousand pounds may be rais'd yearly to the government : without officers to collect it, without oppression to the poor, without hurting trade, and without any person's being oblig'd to pay it, but when he pleases so to do, and by which the duty on soap and candles is proposed to be taken off : address'd to a member of Parliament /

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Main Author:	Downes, Thomas, -1759
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Series:	Making of the modern world (Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature)
Subjects:	Stamp duties > Great Britain. Taxation > Great Britain. Taxation of articles of consumption > Great Britain. Electronic books.
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