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1824. Decr. 25 2
Constitutional Code.

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Ch. XXVI Local Headmen
§.1. Common to Headmen &
Registrars
Instructions

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Instructions
Instructions

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Art. 3. Antagonizing causes
of good and evil, smallness
and numerousness
or rather serviceableness
and expence

On the occasion of the fixation which has
of those sections of territory for the purpose of providing
them with the necessary and apt functionaries he has to as to the size
and thence as to the number of those a of territory
The legislator has to effect and maintain as well as he
can a compromise between two antagonizing sets of claims
Of smallness, the benefits are great and m: but
with and proportioned to smallness numerousness: and
from proportioned to numerousness comes are certain actual evils, and as of
to others dangers which require to be guarded against.

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Art. 4. Benefits from
smallness —
1. Shortness of journeys
i.e. of delay, vexation
and expence.

The good effects of smallness consist in the of the
bad effects of largeness. From Proportioned to largeness in the a of territory
is the average lengths of the way between the abodes of the several inhabitants
and that of the functionary with whom for the
residing and of the [government] political service
necessary it is necessary that on the several occasions
personal intercourse should have place: the length of the
way over which the funct individual who has need of the
service of the functionary has to travel, and of the way
which, for the purpose of giving occasion and effect to that
government ordinance for which on each individual
occasion it is needed, it is necessary for the functionaries
to travel ere he can reach the persons on whom or
things on which his operations require to be performed.

But proportioned to this length are is the magnitude of two
1. In some instances that for the time demanded m
being in proportion to the length of way, the length
is such that that which ought to be done, is by the want
of time prevented from being done: and in all instances
proportioned to length of way is delay vexation, and in some shape or other, pecuniary
or non pecuniary, expence

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Date_1	1824-12-25	Marginal Summary Numbering	3-4
Box	042	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	706	Info in main headings field	constitutional code
Image	001	Titles	instructions
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d2 / e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer	admiral pavel chichagov
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	13629
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