JB/147/051/001

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March 1810

§.3. ImproprietyMischievousness in respect of the tendency to give increase
to the amount of superannuation allowances.

Superannuation pensions or annuities otherwise
called Pensions in retreat ++. "Gratuities for length ++ p.128
of service + constitute a species of expenditure the burthen + p.116
of which has increased and is continually increasing
of which has in the course of the present reign acquired
a fixing as well as an extent and a weightpressure unknown
to it before at any former period always without any distinct view of the justness foundation ground
of the demand on that score or of any other consideration than
that of the mutual satisfaction which on the occasion of any such allowance
can not but be felt in the one hand part by the kind
form by which or acceptibly an exemplification of the virtue of generosity liberality infestation of variety or
received in the other part by the high seated hand by
which at the expence of the public it is bestowed.

Comparing with these manifestations of liberality on the one
hand with the practice of granting officers in Reversion are
but one out of the many instances in which abuses
nourish and support each other.

By the time the office becomes a vacancy takes place in the Office vacant the and
the interest of the granter of the reversion is convicted into possession
the guidance reversioner now become possessor and incumbent
is if not actually ripe for a superannuation
at least nearer at least to that degree of
maturity viz. so much the nearer by so many
years as he has passed in the expectant condition have been passed by him in such his situation state of
expectant of reverence.

Identifier: | JB/147/051/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-21	Marginal Summary Numbering	1
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	051	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49276
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