[clxvii. 109]

1821 March 26

Rid Yourselves

Anti constitutional Evil

Consumption of Cortes time

No legislature in Ultramaria.

Rid evil Edifices

2. In the next plan, whatever design might come to be found in any part of Ultramaria for the improvement remedy to any imperfection in the state of the laws supposing a law requisite to it of the condition of the project in any respect, it is to the Cortes in Spain that the supporters of the design with the proposed law would have to come. No subordinate legislature has the author of the Constitutional Code brought himself to endure in any of those distant Edens over which he has cast forth his shoe,

Among the ten functions allotted to the Provincial governing bodies of the respective Provinces no such power of subordinate legislation can I find.

But is it not to be implied?

No: it is not to be implied.

For among the new functions allotted to certain subordinate authorities within each Province to the Governing bodies within the several districts (Pueblos) the eighth stand thus expressed - To draw up (formar) the Municipal Ordinances of the District (del pueblo) and present them to the Cortes for its approbation, through the medium of the Provincial Deputation, which will accompany them with its observations (con su informe).