NEW ABSTRACT OF THE BUDGET, FOR 1784.
COMMUTATION TAX.—An Act for rendering houses more chearful, healthy, comfortable, and commodious.
PAPER DITTO.—An Act for the encouragement of authors, the promotion of learning, and extending the liberty of the press.
POSTAGE DITTO.—An Act for expediting business, increasing social intercourse, and facilitating the epistolary correspondence of friends.
DISTILLERY DITTO.—An Act for making the landlords responsible to government for the obedience of their own and their neighbours tenantry.
CANDLE DITTO.—An Act for the benevolent purpose of putting the blind on a level with their fellow-creatures.
EXCISE GOODS DITTO.—An Act for lessening the burthen of the subject by an increase of the collection.
SOAP DITTO.—An Act for suppressing the effeminacy of Englishmen, by disappointing them of clean linen.
SMUGGLING DITTO.—An Act for demonstrating the arbitrary spirit of this free government, in whatever clashes with the interests of the Treasury.
GAME DITTO.—An Act for making the many responsible, for a monopoly of every thing nice and delicate, to the palates of the few.
HORSE DITTO.—An Act for reducing the farmers to the wholesome exercise of walking, while their servants enfeeble themselves with riding.