JB/149/205/001

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1822 Feb. 18
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Called procedure and real law

Means of ascertaining obtaining by an instrument the maximum of
aptitude on the part of the functionary and the minimum of pecuniary burthen to the people.

1. For offices requiring pecuniary trustworthiness without extra intellectual
or active aptitude, 1. meaning power of depredation minimized:
their quantity of public money at command, and plenitude
of command over it minimized: – to the amount
as near as may be to the maximum of the amount at command.

2. For Offices requiring extra talent or say appropriate active aptitude
Fuller examination and exhibition, with do examination
in so far as applicable.

Mode of ascertaining the minimum of official emolument necessary
than of expence.

Emolument a fixt salary: thereupon sale by auction
of the Office: tenable either for a term of years, or rather for life
subject to displacement for misconduct specified and provided
perhaps in some instances, with for aggregate inaptitude
in the judgment of certain persons, but in this case not
without reimbursement of the purchase money. Call this the
Economical Auction.

Objection to the Economical Auction. 1. Exclusion of the unopulent
classes: 2. extension of venality. 3. extra probability of misconduct
in the shape of depredation, for want of pecuniary responsibility, and by
reason of the shortness
of the aptitude for usury
in a proportion encreasing
with the degree of indigence.

Objection 1. Exclusion of the unopulent: thence violation of the
that principle of Equality.
Answer

1. From the rejection of this principle against misrule, evil to
the greatest number, great: viz. waste of contribution and the
matter of wealth raised by it expended in waste, and thence operating
as matter of corruptive influence; swelled per tenth the
amount of the mass of the matter of patronage. Add here an Estimate of the salaries
apposite, and the purchases moreover obtainable.⊞ ⊞ Mass of pecuniary emolument
saleable say £1,000,000
a year: saving £200,000
To reject this insrument
is to compare £200,000 a
year on opulent and unopulent,
for the purpose of
saving and the profit
seeking industry of the unopulent
from other channels
into this.

2. The bar opposed to the unopulent is not an insuprable one,
like the bar opposed under some governments by want of nobility.
By raising himself to a degree of opulence adequate to the purchase of the office, the
most unopulent man
may acquire it.

3. The rejection of this instrument of frugality would force exclude
the use of a main instrument security for thence instrument
of, appropriate aptitude; namely relish for the business: the less
the emolument in other words the more a man gives for the office the greater the relish to the him who gives nothing for it, it
may be an object of disgust: of disgust which not surmountable but by the extreme of indigence.

4. The f access proposed to be left to the unopulent de will not
secure their entrance or render it so probable to them as to the
more opulent, the greater the opulence the greater the means of
access to patrons who of course belong of the opulent class.

Identifier: | JB/149/205/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 149.
Date_1	1822-02-18	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	149	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	205	Info in main headings field	constitutional law - official establishment
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	d1 / e1
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	c wilmott 1819
Marginals		Paper Producer	andreas louriottis
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1819
Notes public		ID Number	50059
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