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5. Discarding the members of a governing body
by rotation

Some would say upon this occasion that the air
which has been breathed for a considerable time
by a Court of Directors becomes corrupt and requires
to be changed. The plain truth of In plain English the
matter is

The objections against keeping single governors
long in a place office apply all of them with
still greater force to a council or body of directors. [The
more there are of them the greater will be the
struggle for emoluments] If the Without some such
expedient, if they agree in their with respect
to the generality of their measures, the probability
is that amongst those measures will be
some of which have for their object the providing for the
emolument of themselves and their friends at the expense
of the body at large for whom they are
in trust. If they disagree then and then are
reconciled, it is natural enough that the expense
of their reconciliation should be defray'd in the same
manner. On the other hand, discard a certain
number of them at once, and there if there are
abuses, there is a chance that the new members
may

Identifier: | JB/087/105/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 87.
Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	087	Main Headings	indirect legislation
Folio number	105	Info in main headings field	indirect
Image	002	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f13 / f14 / f15 / f16
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	27630
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