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1823. April 16.
Constitut. Code. II. Expositions

Ch. 1 Names &c
§. Divisions

1.
(a.) Districts, Sub-districts,
Bis. Fris –
2. These denominations
their use?
A. Designating their relations.
This the only means:
District denotes any
magnitude. These are
characteristic and significative.

2.
This alike apt for any
State.

3.
Recognized, in every
State, is convenience of
uniformity, of weights
and measures, as between
State and State.
These are a chain of
measures.

4.
In no State are these
employed. Note the difference
of those employed,
and the inconvenience.

5.
Example 1. England.
I. Confusion in the denomination
of the whole.
1. Ao. by Hen. 2d. England
was made to include
Ireland as a lordship.
2. Ao. by Edwd. 1. Wales
as a principality.
3. Ao. 1708, by Anne, England
& Scotland made
Great Britain.
4. Ao. 1800. By G. 3d. Gt.
Britain & Ireland made
one Kingdom without
a single-worded name.
5. Of distant dependencies
numberless, not included
in any of these names.
Norman Isles do and do
not belong to it.

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Ch. 1 Names &c
§. 1. Divisions

6.
II. Names of subdivisions
dissimilar, and all unexpressive.
1. Of England, Wales included.
Divisions – Shires
or Counties – Counties,
some divided into hundreds: subdivided into
☞. Compleat this from
the population returns.

7.
Composed of the rubbish
of ages this chaos: and
in this, as in every other
part of the field
of law, chaos carefully
cherished: as shield for
abuse in all it's shapes.

8.
2. Example 2. France –
At the Revolution, method
here applied: success not
great.
Names of the result of
the first division of the
Kingdom, Departments:
do. of do. of next subdivision,
Districts, Provinces,
the name of the result
of the first division, being
not unaptly discarded.

9.
But the Departments
might as well or better
have been called Districts,
the Districts, the Departments:
i.e. parts of the
Districts. By Departmt.
too was and is denoted, in
France as in England &c.,
the result of a purely logical
or say political
division, as well as the do.
of this geographical do.: Department
of War, Finance &c.

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Ch. 1 Names &c
§. 1. Divisions

10.
3. Example 3. Spain.
In Constitutional Code,
greater, but not corresponent,
indistinctness
and unsignificantness.
1. Result of the first division
of the Kingdom,
Provinces: if as above,
Districts.
2. Of the 2d. Division of
do., first division of the
Province, Partidos, translated
Anglicé Districts:
if as above, sub-Districts.
3. Of the Partidos, Pueblos,
translated unaptly
Towns; if as above Bis-sub-districts.
4. Of the Pueblos, Parishes:
if as above, Tris-subdistricts.
Parishes – the result
of a division on religious
principles, as
every where in Christendom,
the denomination
of the ultimate or Division.

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