JB/118/429/002

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27 April 1810
Defence of Economy

In respect of the demand for reward remunerations, and the mode of
applying bestowing it. Numerous the Wide is the difference, numerous the points
of distinction, between service at large ordinary used
service habituate rendered to the public in the way of office,
and extraordinary service even when rendered to the public
and by an a person in office and on the
occasion of such his office.

1. When for a specific future contingent service
specially designated and bespoken for example by the legislature
preappointed a reward in case to him who shall
perform it or amongst divers to him who shall perform
it in the best manner, – the navigator who shall navigate
a vessel within ten degrees of the pole, or him
who shall pass nearest to the pole – the maker of a
timepiece which in a trial in the
estimation of heat natural temperature shall not exhibit an error of
to the amount of more than such a number of seconds
or to have that one out of any number made
by any number of competitors that of in which the
error shall be the smallest.

2. Where hope, expectation of good is the activating influencing principle for a public service never bespoken on one part but spontaneously
rendered on the other, such as that those rendered to all the
whole human race mankind at large by the invention of the Cow-
and by the invention of the lifeboat, reward is
spontaneously given whether by the government of the country at the
expence of the its public or by individuals at their
own expence, this such act of remuneration has the
effect of a general rule of law deduced in the way
of common or unwritten law, and by this single act holding out to men every man in
of remuneration given at the expectation of reward from the
same source in
the event of his rendering
to mankind
in general real service of
equal magnitude in any other shape.

Identifier: | JB/118/429/002 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 118.
Date_1	1812-09-10	Marginal Summary Numbering	3
Box	118	Main Headings	panopticon
Folio number	429	Info in main headings field	to ld sidmouth
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	b4 / c5 or c3 / e4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
Marginals	jeremy bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	draft; not included in letter 2190, vol. 8	ID Number	39483
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