1820 Aug. 26

Emancipation Spanish

'. 9. Creole Deputation none

For determining this population in Spain there exists a census though of no later

date than 1797: and by /for this purpose to/ Art. 30. this reference is made to that

census is made. But in no one of the ultramarian provinces, for aught appears does

there exist any such thing as a census of any date. In every province if in any in

which there happens to be one the article indeed[?], by necessary inference where[?]

it to be made use of: for in express terms it declares /ordains/ that reference shall

be made to the latest and most authentic census's, or returns in existence. The

provision which it accordingly makes is that a census, viz. "one corresponding to the

abovementioned last Spanish Census in 1797" shall be made for the ultramarian

population. Well then till some time after this new Census has been made and

completed, that part of the deputation which is to come from the ultramarian

provinces can not come can not have been so much as chosen, nor the number of

deputies of which it is to be composed have so much as been determined.

In each province supposing no such Census made by whom is it to be made? Answer - By

Art. 335 paragraph 7 th By the provincial deputation of the

Province: that and no other is the authority provided

But this same provincial deputation by which existence is to be given to the Census

how is it itself to come into existence? Answer. By /By Article/ the same means, by

which and through the same preparatory stages through which the Cortes is to come

into existence. In each province till there has been a Census made there is to be no

provincial deputation appointed: /chosen/ and till there has been a provincial

deputation appointed, /chosen/ unless there happens to be a census already, there can

be no Census.