1820 Decr. 27

Rid Yourselves

' 1. Creoles willing

 The copy of this is to come in here of N o 3 in

the present copy

3. Supposable resource the third - barren

prohibitions (a)

Text resumed.

By this term barren, no sooner is its the

propriety of its application to the restriction in question seen, than the

unpropriety of placing it upon the list of financial resources, stands demonstrated.

What it produces is individuals subjected to the coercion more or less of the burthen

to the persons concerned in enforcing it more or less of the odium of a tax: what it

does not in any part produce is the benefit of a tax (b)

Note (a)

(a) In a financial view, prohibitions are either productive or barren.

Productive financial prohibitions are taxes. Taxes are prohibitions; for they inhibit

the use of the taxed article, in case of non-payment of the tax: in the instance of

all such employers of the article as pay the tax, the /restriction/ operates as a tax

and not as a prohibition: in the instance of all such as, to avoid the tax, abstain

from employing the article, it operates as a barren prohibition obeyed: in the instance of all such as avoid the tax but use the article

notwithstanding, it operates as a prohibition disobeyed.

Note (b)

Yet, in the system by which Spanish Ultramaria has been wont to be

governed by Spain, barren prohibitions, it is said have place to a vast extent. But

to bring to view in all its particulars the injustice and mischievousness of such

restrictions would in this place be a digression. It claims a separate head. +

 From here, go on and copy and then cancel, the remainder of p. 2 in the existing

copy.