1821. April 19.

Constitut. Cod First Lines (4) (2)

Of a given quality of the matter of corruptive

influence, the efficiency is less and less, in proportion to

the number of the persons whose mutually known concurrence

is [necessary to the receipt of the corruptive benefit] and

in proportion to the number and natural notoriety of the

acts necessary on the part of each person necessary to the

receipt of it: and where any penalty is attached to the conferring

or to the receipt of the benefit, to the magnitude of

the penalty, and the degree of propinquity and certainty

and propinquity attached to the infliction of it.

The case in which its efficiency is at the highest

point is the that case in which the receipt of the competitive benefit takes place by means of an arrangement

of law in the establishment of which no persons [now i.e.]

living at the time of the receipt of the corruptive benefit have been borne

concerned.; and it is in conformity to such arrangement that

the act by which the receipt is effected has been performed.