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19 March 1810
Sinecures

1797-8 did not all the departments – ex. gr. 1.
2. – did not give the and 2. Legal
1807-8 added departments &c but departed from the plan without reason
and took no care to shew it had extended in departments.

In one respect the work of the Committee of 1797-8 had failed
of being compleatly all comprehensive. What

What the nature and the object of the enquiry seemed to
have prescribed. What it the Committee seemed accordingly to have proposed to itself, was
the presenting the particulars in question respecting all
the offices in all the departments.

By far the most considerable of the aggregate part of the then existing
Offices, whether importance or number be considered
were accordingly visited by their scrutinizing eyes.

So inconsiderable indeed is the remaining portion of which
no account is to be found in any one of their 36 Reports,
that without express research it would be impossible to
say whether it was by oversight on their part or want
of power from their above constituent authority that this small
remainder was left unexplored.

The reas On the part of the Committee of 1797-8
the reason for leaving no office or cluster of offices unvisited
was by no means so cogent as on the part of the
Committee of 1807-8. So far as they had proceeded
in their visitation, so much good was done and their work ws compleat so far as it went extended: and the
account given of the state of this or that one of the offices which they
had explored was not rendered imperfect by their not
having extended their enquiries to this or that other office.

But in the instance case of the Committee of 1807-8
so long as any one office in the of which any of such species of interest
as they had taken for had been comprehended among the declared subjects of their enquiry
was left unexplored in this view unexplored, thus the information
they had undertaken to give in relation to this subject
remained incompleat, and by being incompleat incorrect.
For the object was to learn and to exhibit to view the quantity
of public money wasted or misapplied in this manner
and a statement which
should give a part for
the whole would to be
amount of the deficiency
be erroneous.

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Date_1	1810-03-19	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	409	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
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