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Excerpt from Documents of the Senate of the State of New York, Fifty-Seventh Session, 1834, Vol. 1: From No. 1 to 50 Inclusive
Economy is the virtue of republican governments, but it is as distinguishable from parsimony as from profusion. It requires that faithful public services should be fully, and no more than fully, paid; and it is as much the duty of the Legislature to bring to this standard, salaries that are too low, as those that are too high. In forming an Opinion as to the compensation to be given to judges, it is proper to look at all the circumstances connected with the subject; to their situation, which necessarily debars them from all private pursuits; to their qualifications, which result from a union of moral worth, high intellectual powers, and extensive acquire ments; to the services they are required to perform, which.
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