[clxvii. 177]

1821 April 1.

Rid

'. Ultramarian Deputat n none

This sure honourable right, supposing him to have obtained it of the Cortes, as testified by letters of citizenship duly agreed accordingly will any body guarantee to him the possession of it? Not I, at any rate for one. Yes, if besides the supplemental qualification - the matrimonial - he be in possession of the third. For in that case decision or the question of fact is expressly committed to the Cortes whose decree thereupon is made conclusive which it is not in any of those other cases.

So much for positive qualifications of the positive expert. But, to those must be added a negative one: a negative and that a very complex one: namely the not having at the time in question incurred any one /item/ in a list, and that a short, or in any of its points a very clear one of disqualifications: for which list is given in and by two contiguous Articles, Articles 24 th and 25.

Of the shown quantity of the four months working time of the Cortes the demand for which would be created by the claim of dominion in proportion to its success mention has been /is a topic brought/ in the section /chapter/ allotted to that subject. Suppose the value of the right such as to pay for the expence of suing for it, at the hazard of not obtaining it, think what a demand would by this comparatively small and trifling branch of business alone be created for a correspondent portion of that invaluable and unaugmentable length /portion/ of time! Petitions of this class would suffice for filling up this space of time were no other business to present itself.