1826. May 20.

Constitutional Code

Ch. IX. Ministers Collectively.

S.6. Statistic Function.

or 7

Art... or 7. II Subject matter or source of loss, a thing moveable

modes of loss. Examples 1. Non application 2. Application

uneconomical 3. Deterioration or destruction spontaneous for want

of appropriate custody. 4. Deterioration by positive human

agency. 5. Deterioration for want of reparation. 5.

Miscalculation: strange in a place not conveniently accessible:

whence less of labour employed in excess. In case of articles not

applicable but by consumption, as food, fuel &.c 6.

Consumption useless 7. Consumption excessive 8. Consumption

uneconomical. 9. Lease gratuitous. 10. Lease, at under price. 11.

Lease to a borrower by whom it is deteriorated. 12. Lease to a

non-solvent borrower. 13. Lease to a borrower by whom it is not

returned. 14. Elimination by accident, without blame to the

custodial functionary.

or 7 contin d.

15. Elimination through negligence or rashness on the part of the

custodial functionary. 16. Embezzlement by the custodial

functionary. 17. Theft, by another person, functionary or non

functionary. 18 Fraudulent obtainment by d o. 19. Peculation: from less in any one of the above or

other forms, or profit derived by a direction or custodient

functionary.

or 8.

Art... or 8. Efficient causes and modes of spontaneous

deterioration. Examples: 1.Evaporation 2. Exsiccation 3.

4. Induration. 5. Emacliction 6. Fermentation,

saccharineacetous, or putrefaction. 7. Discoloration.

or 9.

Art... or 9. Efficient causes or modes of spontaneous destruction.

Examples 1. Subject matters vegetable in a natural state in large

masses. Efficient cause, contribution in consequence of

fermentation. 2. Subject matter vegetable in a manufactured state

sails on cordage heaped together in a humid state, with an

contiguity to matter efficient cause, combustion as

above.

or 9 contin d.

3. Subject matter mineral with vegetable in a manufactured state,

gunpowder. Efficient cause of destruction, by explosion, in wind

as glass a bubble having the effect of a lens.

or 10.

Art... or 10. Subject matters, considered in respect of their degrees

of natural durability, independently of their application to

use. Examples Articles of greatest durability. 1. Precious

stones crystalized. 2. Stones ( of Earths) in general. 3.

Metals in general. 4. Shells of shell fish, my naturalist ranked

under the name of 5. Bones and horns

of animals. 6. Alcohol... bodies, and other products of

chemical analysis if kept from evaporation and communication with

the atmosphere. II. Articles of least natural durability: tho'

for a greater or lesser length of time preservable by the art. 1.

Flesh of animals 2. Herbaceous parts of vegetables. III Articles

of intermediate degrees of natural durability. Examples. 1. Wood

of ligneous plants 2. Seeds of plants as wheat & other grain.

3. Roots, tuberous and bulbous. Art.11