A Treatise On the Administration of the Finances of France : in Three Volumes 3 [i.E. 2]
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THE FINANCES OF FRANCE. 395 expcnces, but the latter alone muft be ftated in this account, 3. The king allows to his troops, a cer- tain quantity of fait and fmoking tobacco, at a price much inferior to that eftablifhed for the r, ft of his fubjefts ; this expence cannot be eftimated at prefent at above feven hundred thoufand livres, though it amounted formerly to one million, four hundred thoufand : but I leffened that ex- pence one half, by means of a very fimple arrangement, approved of by t...he war department. The troops received too great a quantity of tobacco, and too little fait ; this error of proportion frequently occafion- ed a double contraband : the foldiers fold by ftealth part of their tobacco, and when they were quartered near the free provinces,, or thofe redeemed from the gabel duties, they either fmuggled, or protected the contraband trade, in order to procure to themfelves, what quantity of fait they want- ed. Thefe abufive practices were reformed by leflening the quantity of tobacco distri- buted, and increafing that of fait ; and this alteration faved the king nearly one half of that 396 THE ADMINISTRATION OF that expence, becaufe the lofs fuftained by the exchequer on the diftribution of tobacco at a low price, was much greater than the lofs that refulted from the diflri- bution of fait, 4.
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