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Indirect
Rewarding
Qu. an insurrendum?
Desertion or wrongful abdication of military trust.
A change lately An improvement lately adopted made in the method of raising
giving bounties for recruits in Engla Great Britain may serve as another instance of the
application of this principle. For some time past
instead of three guineas what had to which is stated to have been "the usual bounty money for recruits, eight
guineas is offer'd payable in the following manner:
[3 guineas as before] at the time of enlisting & a man is to have three
guineas as before: at the on his arriving at the head
quarters of the regiment and being approved by the commanding officer three guineas more:
at the end of twelve months from the time of his
being approved, another guinea: and at the end
of a second twelve months " if he continue so long
"in the service without deserting, another." London Gazette 25
May 1782 signed by
the Rt. Hon. Thomas
Townsend Secretary at
War.
Before
this it seems the method was to give the bounty
money all at once at the time of enlistment, all
at once. It has the One effect is the inflicting
in an indirect way over and above the other penalties a fine of a
guinea for desertion over and above the other
penalties: a measure an inducement a measure which
administerd in this way when conceived in this form be reasonably enough
supposed to have some efficacy: but which would
be idle enough if administer'd applied in the direct and
ordinary way.
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