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1824. April 11
Constitutional Code.

Art. 31 Certain occasions, there are on which, a the
official establishments of certain political states allowance in
the shape of annual pensions have been made ordained to be established to or for
the benefit of the occupants of certain official situations,
in addition to the annual remuneration thereto attached.

These are Examples are the following as follows

1. Superannuate pension, that is to say Pensions of retreat – pensions paid to the functionary on
his ceasing to serve.

2. Pensions to relations of of retreat to the functionary, paid payable
on his decease after a certain number of years service.

3. Post-obit pensions: paid to relatives of the functionary after his
decease.

These allowances are both all of them useless, and worse than
useless, adverse to frugality altogether needless and therefore irreconcilably adverse
to frugality: not favorable conducive but on the contrary adverse to
the maximization of appropriate aptitude in all its
shapes.

Art. 32 1. They are needless. The and actual
In addition to the above exploded notion that that largeness of remuneration
security for aptitude, the actual and only sole imaginable pretext
only imaginable pretext for the establishment of them, is the assumed
alledged ground impracticability of obtaining the consent of apt persons
to charge themselves with the official duties.

Of their pr assumption the falsity and groundlessness
is demonstrated manifested by universal experience.

In no other occupation can a man obtain any
such eventual supports from any other source than that of
his own frugality. Yet by the absence of this support from
no other occupations are apt persons debarred in fact excluded:
aptitude continually on the encrease whereas here for want
of inducement for encrease it is stationary or retrograde.

If in any case the case of any one office their
allowance were needful or useful and thence justifiably, so would they
be in every other: or at any rate in many others, to which
they never have been nor ever have been prepared to be attached.

In these same political states the same allowances stand have
been attached to office purely to which no obligation of
rendering nor inducement to render service in any shape
stands attached, and to which at the same time are attached annual remuneration
sometimes as great as those attached to offices of talent
and trust.

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Date_1	1824-04-11	Marginal Summary Numbering	9, 32
Box	039	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	098	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
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