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1823 July 21
Constitut. Code

Corruption fund.

By the name of the corruption fund understand the
aggregate mass of those the instruments of felicity – objects of general
desire actually employed or if this is without a without being purposely employed
actively operating and having the effect of contributing
to the object of the system of corruption: contributing to the facility
with which and the extent to which the system of depredation
oppression and dissipation is continually carrying on by and on
the account of rulers.

To the hand of By the maker of corruption belongs the consideration of
the action of those objects which by that same nature are rendered
capable of being made to operate to in the encrease of
corruption, and thereby in the giving support and choice
to misrule in its several branches as above. To the board of
the corruption fund belongs the consideration of that portion of it which
in the state in question is actually operating towards the production
of that effect. Those several quantities which armed the
command of the rulers in the several other political states which
with respect relation to our own are foreign states are each of
them so many masses of the matter of corruption, but they do
not belong to the corruption fund, for in any strict way they
do not contribute to either to administer to the administering gratification in any
shape to the one division of corrupting rulers, or on the part of the other division
to the engaging them to join in the system of misrule.

Of this same corruption fund the main ingredients are
of course the several lucrative offices in the gift of the Supreme Executive.

But to these are added gratification of means, magnitude
too numerous, too various and some of them too casual, to admitt
of being here catalogued: everything that goes by the name of grace
and favour: admission to please to which others would not be admitted:
admission to more convenient or more honorable situations in places in
which persons in general are admitted, opportunities of purchasing
this or that object of desire with more certainty or upon howsoever
advantageous term those
in which persons at large
can obtain the option
obtainable by persons
taken at large.

Identifier: | JB/037/261/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 37.
Date_1	1823-07-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	53 or 1 - 55 or 3
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	261	Info in main headings field	constitut. code
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