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Feb 1810
Parly Reform

Nothing The fund out of which the money comes – this
too is a matter not undeserving of notice.† † ☞ The interest men have in promoting war depends also
on the fund.

In some one class of instances, the corruptive influence excepted, the
mischief done by the sinecures goes not beyond mere
waste. This is the case for instance with the two
Fellowships of the Exchequer – the one £23,000 a year sinecure
held by the Marquis of Buckingham: and the other £23,000
sinecure held by Earl Camden. Of both these, if I mistake
not the public has the reversion of after the respective
deceases of those two "great characters".

In other instances, over and above the waste the greatest mischief possible
mischief is done which by the extraction of so much money
it is possible for human art to produce. I speak of
the case of those sinecures the emoluments of which
arising as fees being composed of fees paid by Suitors, are levied operate as taxes by
upon justice. Taxes upon justice have been demonstrated shown
by Mr Bentham to be the worst possible of all taxes, even
when paid into that fund into which taxes ought to be paid.
Those Taxes upon justice the payments upon which are made
to law Officers for their own benefit under the name hae
in another work been demonstrated by the same author
to be still more pernicious than those which go by
the name of taxes –⊞ ⊞ The collector of a
government tax upon
law proceedings has not
any such the power as either
of increasing or protecting
against decrease the number
of he occasions on
which the tax shall
be paid. The Judge
to by whom either directly
or indirectly through the medium by the hands
of his nominees the profit
of the fee taxes is received,
possesses both these powers. By Of taxes of both sorts put toether
government taxes and fee-taxes the effect has been such
as to have placed and fixed the vast majority of the people of
all those kingdoms in a state of justice being
sold at what high prices as all fail rather than know
to the few, denied to all but the few denied.

Identifier: | JB/147/225/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	225	Info in main headings field	Parly Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	C1 / E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49450
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