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21 March 1810
Sinecures

Objection – secret transactions in the Cabinet may be the
just subjects of pecuniary remuneration.
Answer – The most secret transactions are occasionally brought to light
especially in the case with a view to punishment.
The assertion of good service in a occasion might at least be required.

On a subject of this sort in a place such as this it
were needless to think of plunging engaging entering into details.

It were needless to attempt to enumeratecause any such enumeration the sorts
of cases in which any service rendered is the public
would have find its exact counterpart in service of a sinister
kind rendered to an individual.

In the Naval department for example suppose any strikingly useful
improvement made. With the nature of the service rendered will
the proof requisite to the establishment of the existence and degree
and value of that service be experience any considerable
variation by the circumstance of its being applied, the
construction of a certain number of ships built in the King's
Dock Yard by the King's workmen, is that of there being to an equal number
built of ships of the same form built by one contract
by a private shipbuilder?

A service rendered by an improvement in the art of making
gunpowder would the proof of the nature of it, would the
proof proper and requisite for the establishment of it be varied
by the circumstance of its being made for the King's use
or for private sale in the way of private hands.

So in the even in the Accountantship branch the penmanship, the Book-keeping branch of service – a
still more extensively applicable one.

Suppose A man in the mercantile or manufacturing
have supposeupon a widely extensive scale his affairs in a particular degree being for want of good book-keeping involved
suppose him to making makes application to a man regarded by
him as in capable of rendering him service by looking over his accounts and
placing laying his affairs before him in a clear point of view, and by the man
so applied to the business is undertaken, but without specific
remuneration offered on the one side or previously required demanded
on the other. The business done compleated the bookkeeper asks a reward remuneration
which the employer refuses to give Here then either the bookkeeper
must go altogether unpaid, or the an action of the most ordinary kind called an action of assumpsit
must be brought: nor can
it be brought, and the effect
aimed at by it obtained
any otherwise than by a proof
brought of the value and
quantity and merit of the
service. And notices
upon the precept are in every day's practice.

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Date_1	1810-03-21	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	159	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C6
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals		Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49384
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