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1824 Oct 27
Rationale of Reward J.B. v. Dumont.
Pensions of Retreat
p.189 Pensions of Retreat
Equity fee
If there be one class of laws which were then in other
under matchless compilation professed to be held sacred it
is
that of those by which the power of the purse is professed to be
confined within to the hand of the pretended so stiled representation of the people
Acts upon Acts have been made to confine it to within their hands
reign. One Ao 1806 the Whigs intend upon mounting and rd
of the kind this A 1806 the highest man in the and the next man
under him - the Chancellor Lord Erskine, with the Tory and the Master of the Roles for his support
joined together and found themselves into a sort of Legislative body
for the purpose of amending and repository of ing upon
Sectors under the name of fees a mix the produce of what
to be, and was accordingly was shared share in the agreed proportion shared between
them: by their nominees the fees were to be received in doublets: by themselves
in patr in the lamp as often as vacancy took place
in the situation of a nominee. The value in the patron of a
benefice
of this kind yielding a given annual income is matter of
of subject to man and is matter of calculation the
present Chancellor Lord Eldon receive in addition to
his £25,000
a year XI as above on this way through the hands of
one a son of his son some thousands a year more: and were compleat
supposing excess in the amount of thr the one being
delinquent and the future Judge, what the probability of
as would be may be judgedimagined. Now if this be not corruption, what
else can be? and this corruption what was the course taken for
the -reaping the bringing it to effect? Sitting in form and many
though in the darkness of the to amend and pro
tanto repeal the above allowed mentioned to Acts of Parliament
After a few months reign, the Whig Chancellor was d
act, the Tory Chancellor who had been moved out for him, resumed
the seal. The streak of with his scorched pens: the
together with so many open found as may and the crafts
personage by whom the for whom the cut hand worked Of their corruption, of corruption into the reputation
of the explachievement remained to the Lord Erskine, the profit found its way
the pocket of his samples into which it keeps flowing to this day.
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