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9 Feb. 1810
Parly Reform Sinecures

2. After this comes The next and only other charge
is conceived presented in these terms. It has also
"It has also not escaped the Notice of Your Committee,
"that Sinecure Offices are liable to an evil
"which is the just object of Public Jealousy, inasmuch

as Persons who would not avowedly hold Pensions in

"their own name, and could not easily prevail upon
"others to hold them in their names, may find it
"less difficult to profit clandestinely or even illegally,
"by Appointments of this Description, under the Cover
"of a Trust vested in some other Person, who is represented
"either to the Public as the real Holder
"of the Office." Thus for the Committee. What is meant
by the case of the Offices being illegally profited from
is explained receives its explanation immediately afterwards, by a reference to the
Statutes "prohibiting Persons for sitting in the House of
"Commons for whom Pensions or disqualifying Offices are
"holden in Trust."

Now to be sure Thus much must be admitted, that if there be any
persons, who occupying a seats in Parliament and enjoying
a Sinecure the profit of a SineCure, holden
in form and appearance by another in trust for him as to the emolument, could not or
would not have procured another to hold a pension
for him on the same terms, every such instance may
be placed to the account of evil. But what is it that
makes the difficulty? Only this, the same circumstances that have just been mentioned above viz. that in the case of
a pension what is pai two circumstances are known viz. its being an allowance for which nothing is
done is known, and also moreover the amount of the allowance
and two considerations circumstances from which it might naturally
happen that no man would to be found who would choose
to be appear the possessor of so much income without possessing
every part of it,
whereas

Identifier: | JB/147/454/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-02-09	Marginal Summary Numbering	9-10
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	454	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D4 / E4
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49679
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