[clxvii. 110]

1821 March 26

Rid Yourselves

Anti Constitutional evil

4. Cortes time consumed.

On this occasion, note well my friends, this system /scheme/ of subordinate legislation drawn up /prescribed/ for the Spanish Provinces - and as if they were exactly in the same case moreover to the Ultramarian Provinces.

Note it in the first place with a view to the present question to the subject now in hand namely the extra demand made by the claim in question upon the four months but time contained in the four months during which part alone of the twelve in a year the Cortes is allowed to live: in the first place with a view to nothing else but the particular subject presented to your view by the title of the section /Chapter/. But with very little additional alteration you may at the same time take a view of its bearing upon another part of the field.

So many of those Pueblos in all Ultramaria - some hundreds of them at least - supposing approbation given by the Provincial Deputation to which they are respectively subordinate, so many Pueblos some hundred of them at least - so many codes presented to the Cortes for its approbation - every time any the slightest regulation for any the most trivial purpose is by the Ayuntamiento of the district regarded as being necessary or promising to be unfit.

Take any one of these Codes for example. If approved in the main, through the hands of the Provincial Deputation it found its way to the Cortes, accompanied with any such observation as the Provincial Deputation may be pleased to nod(?) to its Code and Observations together, here then you see so much matter by which to correspond extra demand will be made upon the Cortes for its time.