OF

BRARY

OF THE

VERSITY OF MIGR

DUGALD STEWART, ESQ., F.R.SS.

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE IMPERIAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AT ST. PETERSBURG ;
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL ACADEMIES OF BERLIN ANd of naples; OF THE

AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF PHILADELPHIA AND OF BOSTON;

HONORARY MEMBER OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY OF

CAMBRIDGE; PROFESSOR OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY

IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.

ADVOCATE; A.M. (OXON.); ETC.; CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE INSTITUTE OF FRANCE;
HONORARY MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES; AND OF
THE LATIN SOCIETY OF JENA; ETC.; PROFESSOR OF LOGIC AND METAPHYSICS
IN THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH.

VOL. IX.

EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.

LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO., BOSTON, U.S.

MDCCCLVI.

EDINBURGHT CONSTABLE, PRINTER TO HER MAJESTY.

ON

POLITICAL ECONOMY.

NOW FIRST PUBLISHED.

VOL. II.

TO WHICH IS PREFIXED,

PART THIRD

OF THE

OUTLINES OF MORAL PHILOSOPHY.

BY

DUGALD STEWART, ESQ.

EDITED BY

SIR WILLIAM HAMILTON, BART.

EDINBURGH: THOMAS CONSTABLE AND CO.

LITTLE, BROWN, AND CO., BOSTON, U.S.

MDCCCLVI.

SUBSECT. 1. Of Restraints on Domestic Commerce and Industry,

SUBSECT. 2. Of Restraints on the Commercial Intercourse of

Different Nations,

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SECT. ii. Of the Corn Trade, .

SUBSECT. 1.-Of the Inland Corn Trade,

SUBSECT. 3.-Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Ex-
porter of Grain for Foreign Consumption,

SUBSECT. 4.-Of the Trade of the Merchant Carrier, or Im-

porter of Corn for future Exportation,

SUBSECT. 5.-Miscellaneous Observations upon the Corn Trade,

SECT. iii.-On subjecting the Commerce of Money to the Regulation of Law,

SECT. iv.-On subjecting the Commerce of Land to the Regulation of Law,

SUBSECT. 2.-Of the Trade carried on by the Merchant Im-

porter of Grain for Home Consumption,

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CHAPTER IV.

OF TAXES,

SECT. i.-Of Taxes in General-Introductory,

SECT. ii.-Of Taxes upon Land,

SUBSECT. 1.-Of Taxes upon the Rent of Land,

1.)-According to a Fixed Canon,

2.)—According to the Varying Rent,

SUBSECT. 2.-Of Taxes which are proportioned, not to the Rent,

but to the Produce of Land,

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SECT. iii.-Of Taxes upon the Rent of Houses,.

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