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1824 Sept.8

Constitutional Code Ch. XI. Members
13 Finance Minister

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Art.5. Receivers and
Payers of public money
shall they be the same
persons or different?

Art. The persons by whom public money is received paid and
those by whom it is paid shall they be the same or different?

Answer. They can not be in all places every where be the same. The
Metropolis is the place in which payment, the greatest aggregate
of payment, and particular payments in the largest sums will
have to be made. To obtain money for these payments at
this one place may comparatively small receipts collections of money will be
to be made at different mutually distinct places from so many different hands
to wit taxestax money collected extracted from various taxable subject
matters of taxation from the different places in which the matters
themselves or the owners of them reside.

or 6
Art.6. Answer. The
same; so far they
can be

Reasons. Advantageous
Case 1. that of the 1. In the case of the
central place of receipt
and payment - the
Metropolis - Seat of
Government - the Metropolis
1. Frugality presented: to
wit bu our Chief Manager
instead of two
2. Frugality presented: to
wit by one system of guarding
instead of two
3. Frugality promoted:
by saving in the whole
of the Building and its
appurtenances
Number of persons to be paid Appraisers, fac the
one for both cost less
than two
4. Frugality permited
Saving as 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

But nothing ders but that the General Office of
Receipt and the General Office for payment should be in one
roof and under the management of one ChiefHead functionary
in chief. Reason Advantages.

1. One Chief Manager instead of two may serve

2. One system of Guarding instead of two may serve

3. For the holdinglodging of a given number of persons
whether residents or occasional Visitors one House of sufficient
dimensions will cost less in building and repairs than
two Houses, of the same solidity and beauty of appearance
Apply thisThis will be more clearly seen when applied in detail, to approach, fences &c

4. Among the functionaries of different orders rules fewer fragments
of unemployed will have place. This supposes
that more business requires generally to be done than can
be done by four Clerks employed during the established Office Offices were Under the united
9 Clerks instead of
the 10 would in the above
supposition be sufficient
hours: as much work causing to be done as will take half the time of a Clerk and that this is the case in not such office. Here then there
must in each of them be 5 Clerks: being together, 10. If these two Offices

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Date_1	1824-09-08	Marginal Summary Numbering	or 5 - or 6
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