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This measure will not only relieve the country of a heavy burden, but tend greatly to fix in the Company that kind of authority which is requisite for the due collection of the revenues.
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Edmund Burke
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Burke emphasizes the importance of reducing burdens on the country while ensuring effective authority for revenue collection.
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