JB/036/172/002

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1821 Novr. 9th.
Codification Offer

Abstractedly considered, reward in this shape may
seem capable of being ranked under the denomination of factitious
reward: but, considered in its application to the sort of service
here in question, presenting itself to all eyes without need of promise, as it will
naturally be apt to do without need of promise, to all eyes, it may on
this account be referred to the head of natural reward. Unexpensive,
if not strictly speaking gratuitous, may the service
be stiled, at any rate: because, from remuneration given
in this shape no additional expence to government, no additional
burthen to the people, is the result.

As in Spain and Portugal, so in every other country
in which the business of legislation is in the hands of a body
of Representatives chosen by the people, that part of the business,
which consists in the preparation of any such body of
proposed law for the consideration of the whole Assembly,
will be in the hands of a select few, under the name of a
Commission or Committee. In any such hands, besides its
being usual that, attaching to the exercise of this function, any particular specially
appointed factitious reward, in the shape of pay, or in a share in any other shape
shall be attached is as far from being customary, and thence
from being probable, as it is from being eligible.

But it has been shewn that in hands so situated, the business, of preparing
a proposed Code in the first instance for the consideration
of the whole body, could not it has been although in appearance ever so gratuitously performed, be lodged
without the most serious inconvenience. inconvenience
in those shapes which have been already brought to view.

The hands so situated being supposed rejected,
hence the necessity of finding some other hands for looking out for others. To those extraneous
the execution of the work. For The the attainment of it, the hands.
hands, factitious reward, in some shape or other, at the expence
of the public, will either be given, or not. If in any such
shape, reward it be given⊞ ⊞ the case is a case of patronage; and the number of those by whom
it shall be capable of being received, must of course be
limited: on the other hand, to if no such factitious reward be given, is in that, in
the where distinguished by the name of procedural
reward if it be not given, reward in the being in the natural shape offered to view, but in no other, the number of
those to whose eyes the prospect of it is opened, and whose
service in the shape in question may be obtained, is
naturally unlimited: and in this case patronage has no place.
On

Identifier: | JB/036/172/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 36.
Date_1	1822-07-24	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	036	Main Headings	constitutional code rationale
Folio number	172	Info in main headings field	constitut. code rationale
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	11096
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