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[clxvii. 117] 1821 March 31
[clxvii. 117]

1821 March 31

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'.10. improvement or redress for Ultramaria.

That of which neither on that nor on any other occasion could any tolerably adequate conception be conveyed to you nor the nature and magnitude. Of the evil liable to be produced by a deficiency of the quantity of the time capable of being applied by the sovereign body to the execution /transaction/ of the public business to the fulfilment of its duties towards you its constituents. That of which not only conception might be conveyed but of which proof might be given and of which proof was accordingly given over /submitted to you/ that the utmost quantity of time, which even supposing no such dominion either exercised or claimed, that sovereign body could under the Constitution have at command for the due exercise of those /its/ functions could have at command could not finally be regarded as sufficient. Thereupon another positive proof of which was also thus submitted to you was - that from Ultramaria, in so far as subjected to the dominion of the Spanish Cortes, from Ultramaria supposing the dominion submitted to [...?] the Code accordingly therein received a Law, demands to an indeterminate but vast extent could not fail to be made upon the Cortes for its time: demand to which no satisfaction could be afforded, otherwise than in so far as of the quantity of time necessary /capable of being applied/ to be applied to the affairs of Spain and Spain alone, necessary a power of address to the unmeasurable and incalculable mass if not above mentioned /brought to view/ a portion was taken from you and your affairs, and to that already unmeasurable mass of evil, to another unmeasurable mass thus added.
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