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Some narrow-minded perfons may poffibly grudge a tax, that loads the present generation for the advantage of those who come after but is it rational to grudge, that others fhould benefit by measures evidently calculated for advancing our own interest? Let us fuppofe, that the heritors of a fhire were to concert measures in common, for improving their lands: to make good roads would be one effectual measure; for fuppofing the reparation to cost 5000, their eftates would be bettered double that fum.

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To conclude: It is not to be expected that any regulations concerning highways, or concerning any branch of police, can be so fo framed as to please every individual. Wife men are practicable men, to use an expreffion of Lord Bacon, and will make conceffions in order to promote a general good, if without fuch conceffions it cannot be obtained. Better far to have a good law, tho' in our opinion defective in fome articles, than to have no law at all, or, which is worfe, a law eminently defective, unjust, and inexpedient.

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