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1824 Oct. 31
Rationale of Reward – J.B. v. Dumont

Note to p.184. B. 11. Ch 7. " "

Prettily told – this story: but no safe conclusion
can be built upon it. Functionaries, who have all Revenue Officers a compleat
set of them all of them engaged in the service by salaries
in no instance sufficient to pay for their books and stoves: consequently
nothing for food cloathing, lodging &c. No sooner have
they respectively entered the service than they have become all of them thieves.
Half as much as To each mans salary half as much as
would pay for his books and stoves is added, and now they
are all honest: to the result to the revenue an augmentation
to one third the amount over and above the price paid as
above for their self conversion from thieves into honest men.
Such is the fable. Men in general will if they have but enough
to keep them alive, will not endeavour to get more money at the
expence of government.

The quantity of money necessary and sufficient to produce
the conversion was it the same for all, or different in the case instance
of each? in the first case, here are so many thousands ofminds
all cast in the same mould: in the other case here is a Minister
of finance invested endowed with super human knowledge.

As to the thieving, deduction made of the exaggeration employed
for embellishment, there is nothing in it very incredible,
the incredible marvellous part of the story is composed of the conversion, and
the profit made by it.

Identifier: | JB/143/067/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 143.
Date_1	1824-10-31	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	143	Main Headings	rationale of reward
Folio number	067	Info in main headings field	rationale of reward - jb v dumont
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	j whatman turkey mill 1824
Marginals		Paper Producer	jonathan blenman
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1824
Notes public		ID Number	48700
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