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1821 April 25 First Lines Constitutional Finances

Law concerning Finance — Financial Department of
Government

The financial department is that which regards by which is performed the extraction
custody and expenditure of such money and money's worth as is employed
or professed to be employed in the public service: viz. in the
several other departments — in this and the several other branches of the public service.

Whatsoever be the public function by the exercise of which service
is rendered or pretended professed to be rendered to the public, or to any part of it,
money, or money's worth, or both, are, in a quantity more or less considerable,
necessary to be employed and disbursed on the occasion of
its being rendered: the financial branch is thus a branch which
interlaces intertwines itself and runs through the several abovementioned other branches
of the public service.

Of This branch of Government has for its proper end that frugality —
branch of or good economy which consists of appropriate frugality.

In every department of the public service, good management
has two perfectly distinguishable branches: the first
peculiar to itself being correspondent to the particular nature of the
service: the other common to it with all the others: this universally applying
branch of good management is frugality.

Considered in another point of view
the peculiar and characteristic branch here spoken
of may be stiled the positive branch: this, which is common to all, the
negative branch. The dictates of frugality are conformed to in so far as,
without preponderant prejudice to good management in other respects,
money and money's
worth is avoided to be
disbursed or consumed.

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Date_1	1821-04-25	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	023	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles	law concerning finance - financial department of government
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c1
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	10947
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