Civil Disobedience in Indian Tradition, with Some Early Nineteenth Century Documents c6.s2.t1.4

c6.s2.t1.4

14. If however the produce of the tax be still deemed an object of moment, I would suggest that it be commuted for a tax on the licences issuable to the several classes of people specified in section 12, Regulation 1, 1811. Such tax would rather aid than obstruct the reform of the police, by eventually reducing the number of persons employed in the trades in question, who require to be vigilantly watched by the police, and if the Regulation and tax were extended to the Western Provinces (also Secretary, Revenue and Judicial Departments,) as might hereafter be done, the produce of the latter would in all probability be equal to the tax on houses.