19 Jan y 1817

Necessity Cat

II Application

§.4. Constitution present real state

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Q. Be it so: First then as to the Electoral Districts.

A. 1. Pocket Boroughs or Proprietary Boroughs. Seats

2. Close Boroughs Seats

3. Open or disputable Boroughs Seats

4. County. Seats

To one or other of these will all the seats contained in the House, will if I

mistake not be found referable The ground of the distinction is the degree of

assurance of certainty or uncertainty /certainty of closeness or openness real or

apparent/ with which the /a man’s/ entrance into this species of office is attended.

1. The pocket or proprietary seat /Borough/ is as the name imports a seat so assured

as to be dependable on the same family upon the footing of a landed Estate: such

being the results the state of things out of which the assurance results does not

seem worth conceding for the present /with a view to an immediate/ purpose In this

case no room is afforded for bribery. Of The seat As well the advowson as the next

presentation may indeed be the object of sale as well as of gratuitous donation. But

in neither case do the Electors receive any money: by the proprietor of the Borough,

if by any person is the money received.

2. Close Borough Seats.