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1824 Sept. 8

Constitutional Code

Ch. Ministers Severally

S.12 Finance Minister

ans.

Art.1. Money, shall it be
paid by the functionary
by whom the article is
wanted, or by a different
one -i..e. a Paymaster.
Answer. By a Paymaster.

or 2.

Art.2. Reasons. Advantages.
1. Frugality promoted, by
saving in pay of functionaries.

Assaying, is an untalented
functionary -
an operator, mostly a
talented d<hi rend="underline">o</hi>

For talented functionaries,
greater pay is necessary
than for untalented.

The difference is wasted
on every day on which
a talented is employed
instead of an untalented
functionary.

or 3.

Art.3. 11. Frugality promoted:
to wit, by saving in
quantity of time employed
and paid for:
Even supposing talented
pay were no greater
than untalented, time
would be lost by interruption
of talented
courses of operation for
the purpose of making
payment: in passing
from one to the other,
time is always consumed
in waste.
True: by a paying functionary,
money can not
without impropriety,
be paid, without warrant
from the applicative
d.o

But
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Ch. Ministers Severally.

S.12. Finance Minister

or 3. contind.

But for the giving this
warrant, nothing more
is necessary, than the
writing of the operative's
name; whereas the
quantity of time requisite
for counting and
examining money is
indefinite, & always
much larger.

or 4.

Art.4. III. frugality promoted;
to wit by additional
security against peculation
and embezzlement.
Suppose one person only
occupied both in procuring
the article and paying
for it, one person alone
would be answerable
for the propriety of the
payment, and one person
alone, to wit that same
person, for the fact of it's
being paid for the public
service. Employ in the
business the two persons
in question, the operative
acknowledges his having
procured the article,
as his having ordered
payment for it: while
the paying functionary
shows by the mandate
which serves him as
a voucher, that it was
paid for public service,
as well as by his entry
that it is gone out of
his hands.

In either office, should
the document relative
to the transaction be
lost, that belonging to the
other, may serve as a
memorial of it.

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S.12. Finance Minister

or 5.

Art.5. Receivers and
payers of Public money-
shall they be the same
persons or different?

or 6.

Art 6. Answer. The same
so far as they can be.

Reasons. advantages.

Case 1. That of the central
place of receipt and
payment-the seat of
Government the Metropolis.

1. Frugality promoted:
to wit, by one Chief Manager
instead of two.

2. Frugality promoted
by one system of guarding
instead of two.

3. Frugality promoted by
saving in the article of
the building and it's appurtenances.

Approaches, fences
one for both cost less than
two

4. Frugality promoted-
saving in fragments of
functionaries time unemployed.

Example. In each of
two offices, quantity of
time habitually needed
say more than 4 functionaries
time, but
not so much as 5; yet
must 5 be paid. Time
needed in each above
that of four, half the time
of a fifth. Keep the establishments
apart, the number
of functionaries
you must pay is 10:
consolidate them, number
of functionaries
sufficient, 9

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Ch. XI. Ministers Severally

§ 13. Finance Minister.

Receipt and Pay Office
should be
1. Separate from operation
2. United as between
under

or 7.

Art 7. So in case II, that of
a Town at a distance from
the Metropolis.
Reasons. Advantages 1.2.
3.4. as above
5. Advantage 5. Frugality
promoted. Saving of the expence
& risk of conveyance
as to all but the difference
between the money received
there, & the money which
shd. be or may be made
payable there.

of 8.

Art.8. Little in danger of
being overlooked or not
acted upon are the above
considerations in any private
Establishment: because
in every do., a person
by whom or by whose
orders things are to be done,
has an interest of his own,
to which in case of collision,
the interest of
every body else will on every
occasion be sacrificed.

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