JB/058/220/001

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1 June 1805
Evidence

But that this state of things sinister interest could have been productive of
any very serious mischief, had it not been for the sinister
interest of the superintending superior and all-ruling functionary,
the Judge. In

In multiplying useless operations it was became necessary to him to
multiply hands to perform carry them: in multiplying useless written
instruments writing it was necessary to multiply the hands that were
to write them, in multiplying nonsense it was necessary
to multiply heads that should understand or it or pretend
to understand it: in multiplying augmenting the mass of operations, of instruments,
of nonsense, all together, it was became necessary to multiply tongues
to talk about it.

Each having his service to perform, each would
be to have his recompence for performing reward for rendering it. In this as or
in other lines fields of labour, as the demand grew, the supply grew
up along with it. Under a connection thus necessary and thus intimate But were they ever so numerous, he
could not multiply his own fees, without multiplying theirs
at the same time. He could not therefore saddle the suitors
with a any given quantity of burthen for his own benefit, without saddling them
with a burthen of much greater weight for the benefit of
those his associates and confederates. Thus miserable disastrous was the
condition situation of the suitor, thus fertile in mischief the germ of
corruption once into the body of the law.

Thus it is that for every particle of the matter of emolument, thus that is
converted into the matter of corruption, received into his coffers, and together the correspondent
portion of public mischief wrought by his own hands, it became necessary
to load society with perhaps twenty times the mischief quantity wrought by those
other hands. He thus found himself in the situation of a surveyor, paid
by his employer, by a per centage, say 5 per Cent, on the money expended
on the building: of the house, the office, the prison, or the palace.

Identifier: | JB/058/220/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 58.
Date_1	1805-06-01	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-5
Box	058	Main Headings	evidence
Folio number	220	Info in main headings field	evidence
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e2
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	1800
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1800
Notes public		ID Number	18889
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