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5 Feby 1810
Parly Reform

At the its minimum the quantity of emolument annext
to any office could not be less than what was necessary
for the subsistence of a man possessed of the qualifications
necessary to enable him to execute exercise the functions of it.
In early times even the art of reading was a rare art: the
art of writing consequently still more so – by the bare possession
of this rare qualification would therefore suffice to enable a
man to exact a more than ordinary rate of payment.

At the institution of an office what would frequently
happen – especially in those early times where population,
wealth, not communication of in every way mode between man
and man were so much less than inferior to what they are at present – that
the quantity of business flowing in to an office would not
be considerable enough to occupy the whole of his disposable working
time. But, subsistence was as necessary to him a man during
the whole of his time: the fewer smaller therefore the numbers of the occasions
on which fees came to be receivable received by him, the greater it was
necessary should be the amount of each such fee. Hence
it is was that while it was impossible that fees a fee should ever
be too small, it might, and each fee might and
consequently all fees might be in to any degree excessive.
Suppose that at the first institution the quantity of business flowing
in to the office was such as would not occupy above more than
the half of his time: less however than what was sufficient
for the whole of his time he could not the allowance
given to him could not be, the consequence was that when
the business came to him encreased to such a degree as to
fill up the whole of his time, the amount of the emolument
received by him would be as much again as was sufficient.

Fees at an office
attendance is the thing
that must be paid for:
and this whether anything
or nothing be
done at the time of
the attendance.

Identifier: | JB/147/254/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	4-6
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	254	Info in main headings field	Parly Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E2
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49479
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