1821 July 9

Codification Office

'.9.

I. Pay of Useless places

List of Useless places.

1. The whole of the establishment kept up for the service of the person of the Chief functionary in the state in a Monarchy: kept up as the phrase is for the support of his dignity: for the maintenance of the lustre the splendor of his throne.

Proof of the uselessness of this office: the peaceful and flourishing condition of the Anglo-American United States in which in the federal State the pay of the Chief functionary is no more than /not so much as/ ,6,000 a year: and it is rather by imitation and prepossession, it should seem, than by any clear proof or view of a real and adequate demand to that amount, that in that instance the allowance of so large a sum was determined.

2. In every country in which the great body of the people profess to believe in the religion of Jesus in any shape, the whole of the pay allotted at the expence of the subject many under the notion of pay for teaching it and performing the ceremonies that /which/ have been attached to /connected with/ it. And note that pay produced by the occupation or rent of property in an unmoveable shape is so much received /extracted/ at the expence of the subject many: for by applying that same money to the provision made for real exigencies /the production money to that same amount /the suffering produced by the exaction/ might be saved /spared/.

Proof of the needlessness of pay drawn /forced exactions/ from this source, is the non-existence of any such system of exaction for the support of the Catholic Members of the Ecclesiastical establishment in Ireland.

Proof that no such contributions /exactions/ are ordained by /conformable to/ the religion of Jesus. No /text speaking of him as/ such exactions did he ordain: no text of the New Testament speaking of him as ordaining any such exaction is to be found: texts ordaining perfect equality among all professors of his religion are to be found /in existence/