JB/012/072/002

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1821 Novr. 10th
Codification Offer

As, by the supposition, the sort of work in question
is no other than an original draught, subject to rejection and
to unlimited alteration at the hands of the Legislature, there
is nothing either incongruant or improbable in the supposition
that instead of a Committee of the Legislation body, the appointment
may be in the hands of a Member or certain Member of the
Executive department.

A course the presents itself in the next place, is
to attach to this service remuneration in a pecuniary shape
to a determinate and hence limited number of individuals, to
be chosen in the way of election by the whole of the legislative
body: namely, either before the service rendered, and thence
in expectation of the receipt of it, or not till after the service
rendered, and hence in recompense for it.

Still, lodge it where you will, lodge it in one of
these quarters or in another - lodge it in any other - patronage
is in the unalterable nature of things a source and instrument
of corruptive influence. No correction is it susceptible
of other than that which has place in so far as the functionaries,
in whose hands it is lodged, are removable by the
secretly given suffrages of the people: and in its application
to their case in articular, the remedy would have left virtue
- less efficiency - than in any other. The degree amount of their
relative and comparative incapacity, would be as the magnitude
of this all-comprehensive whole, compared with the magnitude
of this or that particular part, of the aptitude
of which they are best qualified to judge.

III. The work suppressed, retarded, or by over haste deteriorated.
Now comes in the circumstance of time. Where
factitious reward is the moving power, in the chart of time
two opposite - precipitation and delay - may be seen opposing
themselves: opposing themselves in such sort, that to
prevent the work from making shipwreck on the one or the
other, no inconsiderable portion of care and skill will be
necessary: more than any which has been usually exemplified
or appears probable. In one case, the work will be produced, but in such sort as not to be fit for use: in the other
case, it may happen to it not to be produced at all. Take
in

Identifier: | JB/012/072/002"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 12.
Date_1	1822-06-05	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	012	Main Headings
Folio number	072	Info in main headings field	jb to sn martin
Image	002	Titles
Category	correspondence	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	e8
Penner	jeremy bentham; richard doane	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	letter 2891, vol. 11	ID Number	4133
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