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1825 Dec. 20
Constitutional Code

Ch. XXVII Local Registrars

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Ch. XXVII. Local Registrars.
§.

17. or 1.
Art. 17. or 1. A work of
prime necessity is the apt
registration of these facts
taken in the aggregate.
( See the purposes.)

18 or 2.
Art. 18. or 2. In England
see how unapt.

1. To the benefit, no individual
admitted but
on condition of declarations
replete with
insincerity.

2. Fees exacted, which,
being the same for poorest
as for richest, are disproportionately
burthensome
to the vast majority.
In England A's income
is 10,000 times as
great as B's.

19. or 3.
Art. 19. or 3. 3. Of the seven
distinguishable purposes
above mentioned,
of none but the first, is
any care taken by government;
the six public
ones left to the chance
care of individuals:
collection, imperfect,
thence results delusive.

20. or 4.
Art. 20. or 4. Once only
in ten years is any light
thrown upon this
darkness: this not till
of late: nor now are the
results applying to the
above purposes so presented
as to meet
any more than a
few governing eyes.

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Ch. XXVII. Local Registrars.
§.

21. or 5.
Art. 21. or 5. Great, and
infinitely diversified, &
not without detached
dissertation expressible,
are the punishments
inflicted on the myriads
or millions, who
will not defile themselves
with the insincerity.

22. or 6.
Art. 22. or 6. Cause of this
immorality & unhappiness,
which is called religion
— the most barbarous
and implacable
enemy of morality
and happiness.

23. or 7.
Art. 23. or 7. Much more
apt is the fasting on wh.
this business stands in
France. Neither into
the registration of deaths,
marriages or births, is
what is called religion
admitted to infuse it's
poison. Code Civile
Nap. Civ. 2. Tit. II. Ch.
III.IV.V.

24. or 8.
Art. 24. or 8. Of deaths,
fees for registration
are prohibited.
Code Civil. Nap. Act. 77.

25. or 9.
Art. 25. or 9. Death-recording
function
English provision
Coroner's Inquest it's
inaptitude.

1. The notification is confined
to Deaths, known
or suspected to be violent.
Inadequate as to
it's only purpose, the
crime preventing.

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Ch. XXVII. Local Registrar
§.

25. or 9 contind.
Domestic murders
may to any amount
have remained undivulged
by it.

2. Number of the functionaries
inadequate:
42 only for England,
Wales included.

3. Proportionably great
the expence in Coroner's
fees & journeys of
him & Jurymen: 40
or 50 miles in some
cases —

4. By the delay, the real
evidence evaporates.

5. Means of obtaining
personal evidence inadequate.

6. Doors closeable when
even injustice is meditated.

26. or 10.
Art. 26. or 10. Topics
dismissed.

1. In cases of suicide,
punishment of the afflicted
innocent.

2. Accidental instrument
a carriage, punishment
of the innocent
owner.

3. Remedy for both injustices,
perjury.

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