1820. May 16

Emancipation Spanish

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'.7. Rulers gainers

'. Rulers gainers

2. Money through patronage

3. Profit of patronage by vendors or leaders profit on goods moveables or immoveables supplied /furnished/ for the use of government: for the use of the public under the management of the /these same/ rulers. As it is commonly through the intervention of a contract that the articles in question are supplied, this branch of official profit may be termed profit of patronage in the case of contracts.

In this case the utmost personal profit capable of being made by the patron is equal not to the whole value and price of the goods but only to the whole of the mercantile profit made on them by the immediate furnishers with whom the official patron deals. It is in regard the case of profit of patronage derived from this cource is on the same case as profit of patronage derived from official pay: in the one case as well as in the other in so far as by the money put into the pocket of the protegé the patron, saves an equal sum from being taken out of his own, that, which is as appearance profit to the protegé is in fact profit made it is evident is not quite so apt to find its way into the pocket of the patron, as the profit made on the official pay /as above on official pay/ of subordinate nominees

But in both cases /instances/ in the more common case /state of things/ the profit made by the protegé whether in the shape of official pay or in the shape of profit on goods furnished goes entire into the pocket of the protegé: and so far as this is the case /has place/ the sort of double profit as above has place: in the situation of the protegé, profit in the shape of money; in the situation of the patron profit in the shape of power viz. power of patronage or power encreased by exercise of patronage.