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1824 May 24
Constitutional CodeCh. V. Ministers Severally
§. 3. III. Army Minister
As to this point the Legislature will bear in mind this maxim.
An adequate supply of things more necessary needful is preferable to a partial
supply of things less more necessary needful.
Art. As to appropriate cloathing, it can not on this occasion be stated as
a matter an article of indispensable necessity. Cloathing of some sort, any person how mean and inadequate
who be so ever, every person who can be compelled or would be disposed, thus to serve, would from
some source or other be come provided with. But for the preference of
i[pm a large scale Art. But, not only in actual service, the importance of appropriate cloathing is
in respect by reason of its uniformity and the facility it affords for distinguishing
military from from non-military, as well as friends and associates from is
of every material use: and for the performance of evolution unquestionable and manifest: nor even one merely preparatory
upon a large scale are only in a simply preparatory exercise, when performed upon a large scale can its usefulness with in
service it is by the facility it affords for distinguishing
distinguishing military from non military be matter of doubt.
military from non military no inconsiderable use
Art. In respect of the disease and cleanliness, in
service it is necess in neither way of almost indispensable very material use.
This is by in consists in the encrease it gives to the number of spontaneous
members – in other words the by obviating the disquiet which
in the case the relatively opulent would be produced by the spectacle of the relatively
indigent when indigence should be at such a degree as to render
fair habiliments offensive to the senses of persons bred up in
habits of factitious delicacy.
Art. By an appropriate application of the inequality
minimizing principle the conciliation may be established
between the provision made for the exigencies common to all and the less urgent
demands peculiar to the relatively opulent. In each district
Art. The course that appears to be recommended by it is as follows – In each
District either by voluntary subscription or by a tax imposed by
the local Legislature the Sub-legislature of the expense of the district articles
of relatively comparatively inferior necessity may In the first place be supplied. The To
of rush imitation of musquets substitute real musquets: those
provided add powder for occasional use by the whole number:
next may come rifles with powder and ball for exercise to the employed
by a portion elected by the
in the open or secret mode
by the whole armed population
of the District or of the
Sub-District.