Bounties

Examples

• It is altogether for the benefit of the producer, that bounties are granted upon the exportation of some of his productions. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The bounties upon the exportation of British made sail-cloth, and British made gunpowder, may, perhaps, both be vindicated upon this principle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• During these eleven years, the tonnage bounties paid amounted to ?155,463:11s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The defalcation of the revenue of customs occasioned by bounties and drawbacks, of which a great part are obtained fraudulently, is very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bounties have even been given upon the exportation of some of them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bounties upon production, it has been said too, have been found by experience more liable to frauds than those upon exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In other respects, their effects, it must be acknowledged, are the same as those of bounties upon exportation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If bounties are as improper as I have endeavoured to prove them to be, the sooner they cease, and the lower they are, so much the better. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The first bounties of this kind were those granted about the beginning of the present century, upon the importation of naval stores from America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bounties are sometimes called premiums, as drawbacks are sometimes called bounties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The expense of premiums, besides, is very trifling, that of bounties very great. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The tonnage bounties given to the white herring and whale fisheries may, perhaps, be considered as somewhat of this nature. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The citizens, therefore, who had no land, had scarce any other means of subsistence but the bounties of the candidates at the annual elections. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When that form has been so altered by manufacture of any kind as to come under a new denomination, they are called bounties. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That bounties upon exportation have been abused, to many fraudulent purposes, is very well known. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In that year, each barrel of sea-sticks cost government, in bounties alone, ?113:15s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bounties, it is allowed, ought to be given to those branches of trade only which cannot be carried on without them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The bounties which were paid out of this revenue, though in that year there was no bounty upon corn, amounted to ?167,806. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Bounties and drawbacks together amounted to ?2,324,600. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The bounties upon the importation of tar, pitch, and turpentine, underwent, during their continuance, several alterations. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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