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1824 Decr 23 1825 Decr 19 +
Constitutional Code

IV
Ch. XXVII Local Registrars
§ Marriage
Purposes
1 Notification

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9 or 5
Art. 9. or 5. Difficulty as to who
shall pay the expence
of such registration:
the public, or the individual.
Not to the contracting
parties above
is the of
service: b

10. or 6
Art. 10. or 6. Under
democracy there might
be a difficulty about
exacting a fee from the
majority.
None under Monarchy
or Aristocracy

Difficulty as to who shall defray the expence — the public or
individuals. Whatsoever may be the advantage attendant on this
universal and perpetual indefinitive, can any how be
division between those who having to whom it would be useless
and who would, on that supposition laws are clear
on it, and thence to whom it may eventually be useful,
and who thence would have a claim to it. The answer can
not but be in the negative. Here then is a knot which
must be cut, and which however can not be cut by
any other than a blind and arbitrary stroke. A registration
fee must be imposed, and the in order to come
up to the purpose not imposed for the purpose in quality of a tax but in
quality of a prohibition. Thus then is a sort of aristocracy
created: an aristocracy composed of those in
whom the ability and the inclination to pay the tax are conjoined.

11 or 7
Art. 11. or 7. Of a fee
if any the quantum
should depend on the
value of the day's pay
of the lowest paid labour

As to the quantum, it depends manifestly on local
circumstances: say on or the : a tax to
the amount of a mans days labour of the lowest paid class
of labourer.

12. or 8
Art. 12. or 8. Difficulty
from synonyms
But synonymation
will not often take place
as to
1. All names of both
parties
2. Time and place
of celebration of habitation, the same
3. Under Election Code
the habitation of each
would be fixable

W Supposing Even after this the of the persons the
sets of persons who in in the appropriate register would
be found mentioned described by the same names would could not
fail to present itself in the character of a difficulty.
It will however appear the less formidable, when it is considered
that the difficulty is considerably reduced by one
consideration — that how frequently so ever the same names
singly take may be repeated, it will be a case comparatively rare
if when the same pair of names is repeated: and in the next
place that for further reduction of the effect if this source of
confusion there is the combination of the two circumstances
of place and time. Not one perhaps in a hundred thousand
times will it happen that two pair of parties of the same names shall
have
have been married the same
day at the same place.
And in this case to remove
the difficulty altogether
would require nothing more than a clause requiring ordering that as often as is the case the two pairs shall in the Local Registry be directed by some sufficiently
descriptive adjuvents.

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Date_1	1824-12-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	9 or 5 - 12 or 8
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