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15 April 1810
Sinecures

Payment by fees has this one seeming advantage over payment
by fixt salary. The Instead of the irksome principle
of punishment, the principle by which official action is produced
is the exhilarating principle of reward. In the case of
salary the more greater the quantity of business the official
person has to do, the more trouble he has, and the less he is pleased therefore if the
love of ease has that sway influence over him which in his situation
it is natural it should have, the less he is pleased. In
the case of fees, as each official operation produces its separate
reward, which reward but for the operation he would not
have, and the cause of his acceptance taking upon him of the duty being his
desire of the emolument attached to it, the more business he
has to do, the better he is pleased. The situation which in this respect he
finds him in is exactly that of the shopkeeper whose
satisfaction can not but be proportioned to the quantity
of custom that comes to his shop.

In so far as alacrity is necessary or contributory to
the execution of the business two advantages will in the are thereupon attached
to the mode of payment by fees: 1. the business
will be better done, and the deportment of the official person
towards those his customers will be more conciliatory, then the
vexation of attendance consequently less.


Identifier: | JB/147/477/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.

Date_1

1810-04-18

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

147

Main Headings

Sinecures

Folio number

477

Info in main headings field

Sinecures

Image

001

Titles

Category

Text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

C1

Penner

Watermarks

TH 1806

Marginals

Paper Producer

Andre Morellet

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1806

Notes public

ID Number

49702

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