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Book 1. Ch. 2 Of the Matter of Reward

Delinquency Punishment
expenditure & reward
are modifications of
good and evil.
Mischief unintended
by the legislator is an
offence, intended is
punishment, good received
has been expended. The absence
of good is
comparatively an evil.
The absence of evil
comparatively a good.

The matter of Reward
may consist 1. of the matter of Wealth.
The most common and
suitable stuff.
2. Honour
As Titles hereditary
or otherwise connected
with difference of Rank
or rest as Medals,
Public thanks.

A graduated scale of
Rank, when determined by Merit useful
(a) Note stating alteration
of opinion.

Such a scale in use
in the army. In this
case the object not
honour but power. The
honour accidental.

Cath II extended this
arrangement to the
civil service and made
the non collation of
reward perform the
office of punishment.

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Another advantage
arising from this was
an increase of respect
to the civil Servants.
The nobility pressed
into the Service.

Orders of Knighthood
appear like fragments
of a system of honorary
reward.

The orders of merit
which have been
established seem
like satires upon
every other order.

Ordinary orders
They are confined
for so many different
servies
that the merit
certainly proved is
that of being agreeable
to the sovereign.

Being drafts upon the
public esteem ought
not some pubic reason
to be assigned for
them.

3. Power
The principles
which govern its
distribution belong
to constitutional law
for instance the
election of a King
wherever power can be
be employed as matter
of reward it is
economical.

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The difficulty is
to select pets as
evidences of capacity.

Otherwise we might
advertise in the
gazette
for public
servants

But it is not
uncommon for a
man to be qualified
in one aspect for
public situations
but not in another

There are also cases
which admitt not of
this kind of proof.

Capacity cannot be
determined by
general rules

Advances towards
correct judgement
might be made by
forming catalogues
of indications of
capacity

4. Exemptions
either from punishment
or burthen

Exemptions from
Punishment are

These can
seldom be held out.

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English law presents
one instance of this
viz
"benefit of Clergy"
Cath II exempted the
Polish deputies
from Corporal Punishment

Burthens may affect
a man's person
his reputation or
property

They may be services
of submission or
behaviour

The freedom of Peers
and Members of
Parliament from
arrest are exemptions
from services of submission.

Of Services performed
by action some are services
of respect. The Earls of
Kinsale are exempted
from one & wear their hats
before the King

Tyburn tickets carried
an exemption from
Paris offices.

Soldiers are exempted
from the obligation of
the laws of Corporae
Towns.

The more severe the laws
the greater the fund
of exemptions.

Pleasures
These are not equally
manageable as punishments

Different pleasures
have at times been
employed as
rewards

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