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5 Feby 1810
Parly Reform

Thus it was that the less the quantity of business done attached
at to an office at the institution of it, the higher the
fees of it would naturally be and the greater the
room for excess , if the business was no more than sufficient
to fill up a fourth of his a mans time, room was thus made
for over payment, to the amount of four times as
much as at the later period would have been sufficient.
Thus it was that pay fee became the method of sinecure.

But when a man found himself in possession of
an allowance four times as great as he found any
need of for his subsistence, in such a situation if he could find any other
mode of employment way of employing him for his time either more profitable
or more agreable, he would naturally be upon the lookout
for a substitute. As to himself or some predecessor
of of his was at the commencement of the institution office
content to do the business for a quarter part of the allowance
now received by him for it, so would somebody naturally
be at this more advanced stage period of it: in on
this case supposition three fourths of the emolument would be what
he would be enabled to put into his own pocket, and
at the same time do nothing for it.

Supposing afterwards at a still later period the quantity of official business increased
to such a pitch as to afford occupation for the
whole time of two persons, so much the better for the principal here was another great improvement:
the office institution was thus arrived at such a pitch
of perfection that without working any part of his time a
man would receive eight times as much as he ought
to receive for working the whole of his time.

Identifier: | JB/147/255/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-05	Marginal Summary Numbering	7-9
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	255	Info in main headings field	Parly Reform
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E3
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49480
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