JB/047/135/001

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June 1805
Evidence

5. The emolument received by a subordinate officer
on account of the Judge may be received either in
openly his name, or in the name of some other person or persons acting
as his trustee or trustees: number two has on these occasions
the advantage in some respects of number one.

In cases of this kind, should the legality or propriety reputableness
in other respects become matter of doubt apprehension he has a choice
to make. Receiving the emolument in his own name attracts
attention, but puts a good face on the matter,
by by proclaiming conscious innocence: receiving it by trustees
excludes attention, but should attention unhappily stray
that way, betrays consciousness of guilt.

As the act of rec receipt of the corruptive profit may be masked
so may the act of patronage: in the as hand through which the money finds its way
and the pocket of the Judge may be concealed screened from observation covered up, so may the lips by which
that hand is nominated. The nomination to the office is performed – not
by the Judge but by somebody else: – the recommendation of the person to be
nominated is whispered by the Judge to that somebody else.

The thicker the darkness in which the channels are involved enveloped
through which the matter of corruption flows, the more baleful the corruption
on his account: men are less upon their guard against its influence,
and it being the more difficult to discover and the cause of the disease being the more difficult to and discover the
disease itself and convince the public of its existence in that character of
the disease itself, the more difficult to cure.

Identifier: | JB/047/135/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 47.
Date_1	1805-06	Marginal Summary Numbering	2-3
Box	047	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	135	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d5
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	15003
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