JB/147/345/001

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22 Feb. 1810
Sinecures

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Class I

In the Report Committee's Report the title of this
column is "Total annual gross mount
of Salaries and Fees". From of the word gross
therein they applied indiscriminately to all the
articles without exception, the natural import conception naturally
conveyed is that they are all of them
subject to deductions: viz. to deductions peculiar
to each, and over and above those deductions
such as the Land tax to which all official emoluments in general are
subject, in common with landed estate private property
in the shape of landed estate and other shapes.

But But there are many are the instances in which this conception if it were entertained
would be erroneous: for example and amongst them all the
instances comprized in this first Class.

Here then is a misrepresentation, of which
in so far as it passes unobserved, deception is
at any rate the effect: and if this effect was not the
object, what was? what other object had it? was there?
It is only in proportion respect of the neat
amount of the emolument belonging to it that
any one of those sinecures can be a just subject
of concern/censure or regret, or a just object
of abolition or retrenchment. Yet in no one
instance is this neat amount so much as
professed to be given: and, if in any instances
it is seen discovered to be neat, its being so is a
fact which, by the above mentioned general
title, stands contradicted by the Committee.

Now as to the effect of this misrepresentation
of this concealment – and to some purposes, but
those surely not public purposes the use of it.

In some instances more particularly, such
as the two vast sinecures constituted by the unreduced
Tellerships, sums such as £23,000
odd might be apt to produce an a not very unfavourable impression
on the public mind. As if to counteract this
impression, as have an observation attached to each is – Deputy and
Clerks paid out of it. But, in so far as it the
Deputy unless he who be a Sinecurist Deputy and Clerks unless they also are respectively
Sinecurists are paid out of it, the emolument
in question is not part and parcel of a mass
of emolument attached to a Sinecure, a mass
of pretended reward received without rendering
the pretendedly expected service.

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Class II

What may very well be the case, is – that
of the articles placed in this class, there are some
which ought to have been placed in Class I,
the some, though not a round sum, being
perhaps not the less a fixt sum.

What may also be the case, and as far as
it is the case is of much more importance
is – that of the articles placed in this class
there are some, there are even many, which
ought to have been placed in Class III.

Identifier: | JB/147/345/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-22	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	345	Info in main headings field	Observations
Image	001	Titles	Class I Observations / Class II
Category	Rudiments sheet (brouillon)	Number of Pages	1
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Penner		Watermarks
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Notes public		ID Number	49570
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