JB/081/008/001

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1826 July 26
London Petition

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All this had it been but trusted we should have submitted
to without limitation, notwithstanding our conviction that for in the case of public
functionaries in the same situation it would as to be for the greater
part of it not only unnecessary /unconducive but adverse to the ends of justice
knowing as every one that pleases may know that it is twelve
times the amount of the retribution received with which as Freemen in the highest ranks of Judicature men of
unimpeached integrity and appropriate aptitude in every way
shape are perfectly well satisfied

But we beg entreat of him to state to the Honourable House to
observe that this retribution enormous as it is is not in fact
subject to any limitation: on the contrary the power of giving making
extension addition to it to any amount has by a recent Act of
Parliament been expressly conferred on the receivers: the power of determining
the quantum of the fees received by functionaries if when they
have respectively the nomination being thereby given to those same Judges

The pretence on which this power of unlimited
taxation and by means of taxation d correspondent amount of justice
is so shallow that we are almost ashamed to mention it. Under
the name of sale applied to the office in question this source of unlimited profit [and extortion] is
disallowed, and it is in pretence of the casual profit thus abrogated that the
augmentation to the fixt salary is established. But under the name
of gift this same sum of sinister profit is confirmed allowed and by
the power given to exercise it at pleasure, the facility of extortion
established [and all limit taken withdrawn from the amount of the result]

[As to this matter we beg here to represent] that by
the substitution of gift to sale not only is the veil of virtue in the shape of bounty
and by hypocracy over extortion, but the mischief in a prodigious
degree encreased. Had the office in question been left exposed to sale, is
now made disposable of by auction there would have been no intinate connection
of sympathy between the vendor and the purchaser would thereby
have been established, and the private interest being exposed to the
view of the most incurious and least discovering eye, in case of mis complaint made
in the way shape of extortion, negligence or any other the patron
for whose benefit the office had avowedly been sold might by the public eye have been delivered
from substituting protect impunity to redress

Identifier: | JB/081/008/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 81.
Date_1	1826-07-26	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	081	Main Headings	petition for justice
Folio number	008	Info in main headings field	london petition
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d3 / e3
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	25795
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