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27 July 1806
Evidence Scotch Reform

The substitution of salary to fees, is a practice so solidly
grounded on principle, and so compleatly sanctioned by recent
and universally approved precedents, that experience as it is, were the expence were this the only
difficulty neither opposition nor dissatisfaction could consistently
be apprehended: but though this were surmounted, a great part
of the opposing force remains unconquered, and perhaps unconquerable.

Unprecedented as it is, strange as accordingly it may well
appear to our English eye, in Scotland the reform which has
the honour of your Lordship's patronage, originated in I presume as a learned law-learned, in a judicial
bosom: in substance I see it proposed, and not only proposed
only but well advanced, in a pamphlet by the late
Lord Swinton, but one of the so Scotch Judges Judges of the Court of Sessions, in a
pamphlet printed so long ago as in 1789. Even now I
if I am rightly informed, it has for its and draughtsman
author of the Judge of that locally supreme or with a superior Supreme Court.
In all this there is nothing out of nature. Repose is held out Ease is provided
to for those to whom ease repose may be desirable: sacrifice is not required
of any. Additional Courts require additional Presidents:
additional dignity requires additional emolument for its support.
I speak not in the way of irony. It is a common place conclusion inference, sometimes right well applied
sometimes ill applied, never conclusive to infer public
dissipation mischief from individual accommodation. Your Lordship
knows how to distinguish: I in my humble sphere do so too. Were
my disapprobation of the plan ever so strong, I would leave it to anyone
else that pleased, to call it a job: reform of it had not this quality
in common with jobs, would not be reconciliable either with policy
or with justice.

Identifier: | JB/091/028/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 91.
Date_1	1806-07-27	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	091	Main Headings	scotch reform
Folio number	028	Info in main headings field	scotch reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	iping 1804
Marginals		Paper Producer	bernardino rivadavia
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1804
Notes public		ID Number	29024
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