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17 Feb 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

Bestowed Given in consideration of public service, money is given
in some cases in connection with office, in others other
cases without any such connection with office.
Given in connection with office, it is given to
a man either during his continuance in office,
antecedently to his acceptance entrance into office or subsequently
to his retreat retirement from office.

When given to a man during his continuance
in office and in consideration of the services expected
from him in execution of the duties of his office, the
following are the purposes distin so many distinguishable
distinctions purposes with in respect of a view to in which the bestowal of the quantity of public
money actually bestowed on the official person has been in use wont
to find its justification real or supposed.

1. Preservation against corruption: preservation against such
temptation as he may stand exposed to during his
possession of the office, by the such powers and opportunities
which as it may afford him for possessing himself of
undue emolument by undue means.

2. Provision for responsibility: viz. i.e. for eventual burthensome
responsibility in the burthensome(a) sense of the word
viz. to the purpose of making pecuniary compensation or suffering
pecuniary punishment in the event of his yielding to any such
temptation as above.

3. Provision for dignity: – for the maintenance of official dignity.(b)

(a) In the beneficial sense. By the matter of wealth, in proportion
to the quantity he has of it, a man may be said to be rendered
responsible by it in the beneficial sense of the word responsible responsibility
in respect of his having it to enjoy: in the burthensome sense
in respect of his having it to lose: i.e. in respect of his capacity,
of his being deprived of it on the score of delinquency by the power of the
law, the responsibility
in respect virtue of it in the
burthensome sense have
for its foundation his
responsibility in respect
of it in the beneficial sense.

Identifier: | JB/147/144/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-17	Marginal Summary Numbering	2-3, 3a
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	144	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles	Note (a)
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / E2
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49369
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