1820.

Emancipation Spanish

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'.7. Rulers gainers

'. Rulers gainers

2. Money through patronage

/If/ In every instance in which by means of the pay attached to this subordinate office he makes provision for a person for whom but for the patronage thus possessed he would have made provision to the same /equal/ amount at his own expence, the profit thus indirectly attached to the superordinatte office is equal to an equal portion of any profit directly attached to that same superordinate office.

Suppose the subordinate office sold by the patron made by the patron an object of sale, the net /indirect/ profit thus indirectly made by the patron will be the amount of the pay in all shapes attachd to the subordinate office, deduction made /after deduction/ of the people made by the purchaser in [...?] of the purchaser, is rather, considered in a more simple point of view it will [...?] in the difference between the amount of the purchase may be obtained and its value which /the patronage of/ the subordinates office would have beeen to him had he dispensed of it as above in favour of a person for whom he would have made provision to the same amount at his own expence.

By the double effect /use/ thus given /produced/ by the same sum of money, if the number and pay of the subordinate offices be not encreased, the /pecuniary/ /immediate suffering of the/ loss to the people in a pecuniary shape is of course neither doubled nor so much as encreased: but in another way and that not the less real and sure because remote, namely in the way of corruption, it is encreased /does receive encrease/ as in the manner that will be presently brought to view /But in this case it is the interest of the patron, that in number and value, and thence in pay these subordinate offices shall receive every possible degree of encrease: and proportioned to this encrease is the profit in the shape of power of corruption, of which under another head/.