| Show ITALIAN LEGAL functionaries FUNCTION ARIES minor are poorly paid for their service in italy any unfortunate who owes 10 per cent finds his little debt run ap by sheriffs officers tribunal expenses and all the manifold charges of notaries not aries attorneys and advocates to per cent before he has time to breathe or realize the situation and the forced sales are so conducted that the property sold produces nothings for anyone except the state and the auctioneers the state takes its percentage first says the fortnightly review before even the creditors and thus is caused the avidity by which all state officials and myrmidons drag to ruin by intrigue and extortion a large majority of the italian taxpaying public note the salaries paid to the officials of the tribunals in italy and judge if such officials are not invited and forced to ruin the mass of the people where a county court judge in england has 1000 or 2000 a year he receives here the equivalent of 40 or perhaps 30 per annum all the lesser functionaries function aries are paid in proportion the giudice conciliatory concilia tore who answers to the juge de la paix in france and to the police magistrate in england is paid sometimes at the rate of 20 per annum sometimes not at all the pockets of the appellants at his court must maintain him it can readily be understood that all these hungry function aries of the law big and little live on the public perforce and that almost any iniquity or injustice may be obtained under their rule if money be largely enough and secretly enough expended your splendor is my dishonor said bacon to his magnificent liveried serving men who rose to meet him when he entered court to stand upon his trial the italian functionaries function aries may say to the italian themis that we have coats to our backs and rings on our fingers Is your dishonor for you do not pay us enough to enable us to get either honestly notwithstanding this miserable pay which they receive italy spends on the administration of law i e more than franco in comparison to the population and more than england the public who contribute all these millions get little or nothing for their money |
