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1824 May 16 Constitutional Code Ch.IXXI Ministers Severally
S.3. III. Army Minister

SJ.4. Radical principles applied
Expence minimized
Art 17. A musquet
being the intrument mostly
employed in active service
and mostly requiring as is
, the instrument
be it in force and weight
that can be afforded is the
aptest for such preparatory
exercises

Art 17 For this purpose an instrument agreeing in form, andand as far as possible in weight
and materials with the instrument principally used in actual service against an enemy is
little less than indispensable . where fire-arms are thus of
employed, a musquet. ABetter than nothing would be a branch of a tree, cut and fashioned to this
shape. [would be better than nothing

178
Art. 178. not necessary
Charity is explosion
for producing this effect no
additional skill is necessary
House may be made to great
service in the expence

Art. 18. But to this purpose except in so far as firing at a is employed about is
But be employed
forms part of the exercise, what is not necessary is — that it be employed
in explosive: for, to that operation, when considered apart from that and
aim and at an individual object, the no additional skill is necessary. But in the
of the number for explosion consists, in active service consists a great if not the greater part
of the expence. Here then is our great saving capable of being made
and the entire of expence in the article of expence.

Art.18. But, of the enginemachine itself the expence , even when by manufacture
in the great whatever in the made upon the largest scale, all thesuch saving
is made which as the nature of the case allows of, the expence, when
number multiplied by the number of persons in question can
no where fail to be very other than considerable.

169
Art. 169 Considerable
however at its manufacture must
be the expence of this
instrument when multiplied
by the whole number of
persons capable of employing
it

Art 19 For supply any source which will be considered is
that which will be afforded The same of Of this as any other sale of armchairs<add>arm</add> by those employed in actual service will be afforded
that quantity rendered unserviceable the of in proportion as unserviceable in relation to that service, they
became unserviceable.

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Art. 20 After a stock of
those fit for actual service
has been provided: one
constant source of supply
without expence will be
those eliminated as unserviceable.

Art. 20 Of all imaginable arms not employed in explosion, the pike
implicitly unless for that purpose ma for the

is that which in proportion to its efficiency, if not absolutely is capable of being manufactured at the least expence.
in the most useful stat at less than the least at which
theOn mala instrument resemblance agreeing with a firelock in shape and weight alone could be
The pike is in without
manufactured. and which in a state fit for actual service manufactured at less
expence manufacturer in which
above purpose may service

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Art 21 When musquets
can not be had, a pike
presents a substitute, the
serviceablenessefficiency of which is
generally acknowledged

Art. 21 In efficiency, it has by all in all times been acknowledged to
be far from inconsiderable. When wood and metal fit for the purpose are to be had, it may therefore be employed with advantage,
no new and places in which firelocks are those useful for
actual service, are not obtainable. because can not be obtained.

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Art.22. Its expence
may be less than the least
expence of an instrument
corresponding in form and
weight to a musquet, even
if not rendered employable
as such an actual service

Art.22. If for the preliminary exercise, for which abuse these brand
of the national force is commonly destined, even firelocks alone
when correspondent in number to those capable of employing alone are liable to be found too expensive, much more would they be with
the addition of any of them the other implements of warfare above-
-mentioned.

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Date_1	1824-05-16	Marginal Summary Numbering	17-22
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