_That a proportion ought to be pitched between the Expence or Consumption of the whole Nation, and the Publick Charge thereof._ ib. _Commodities ought not to be taxed until they be just ripe for Consumption._ 72 _Commodities of equal value may be unequally excised with justice._ ibidem. _Of accumulating the Excise of many things upon some one thing._ ibid. _Whether Native Commodities exported ought to pay Excize._ ibid. _The explication of Accumulative Excise._ 73 _Reason for accumulating the Excise of all things upon some one thing._ ibid. _Why Beer ought not to be that one thing._ 74 _Harth or Smoak-money is an Accumulative Excize, with the reasons for and against it._ ibid. _Reasons in behalf of the Excize._ 75 _Of framing persons to be fit for great Trusts, as to be Cashiers, Store-keepers, Checques, &c._ ibid. [Illustration: (decorative header)] CHAP. I. _Of the several sorts of Publick Charges._ The Publick Charges of a State, are, _That of its Defence_ by Land and Sea, of its Peace at home and abroad, as also of its honourable vindication from the injuries of other States; all which we may call the Charge of the Militia, which commonly is in ordinary as great as any other Branch of the whole; but extraordinary, (that is, in time of War, or fear of War) is much the greatest. 2. Another branch of the Publick Charge is, the Maintenance of the Governours, Chief and Subordinate; I mean, such not onely as spend their whole time in the Execution of their respective Offices, but also who have spent much in fitting themselves as well with abilities to that end, as in begetting an opinion in their Superiours of such their ability and trustworthiness. 3. Which Maintenance of the Governours is to be in such a degree of plenty and splendour, as private Endeavours and Callings seldom reach unto: To the end, that such Governours may have the natural as well as the artificial Causes of Power to act with. 4. For if a great multitude of men should call one of their number King, unless this instituted Prince, appear in greater visible splendour then others, can reward those that obey and please him, and do the contrary to others; his Institution signifies little, even although he chance to have greater corporal or mental faculties, then any other of the number.