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<head>§ Publication of fees of office</head> | |||
<note>9. Fees of office</note> | |||
<p>Extortion in the way of office:<lb/><sic>Annext</sic> to every office which is not a sinecure<lb/>are certain duties: these duties consist in the<lb/>rendering of certain services: services which are such<lb/>either to the public at large or to individuals in<lb/>detail. As a tradesman sells his goods, so of<lb/><add>course will a workman his labour</add> [will an officer [sell] his services <del>]</del>, as dear as possible]<lb/>for as much money as he can get. Competition, and<lb/>the facility of going to another market <del>will</del> keeps<lb/><add>down the price</add> this disposition within the limits of utility in the<lb/>case of ordinary labour. But by the establishment<lb/>of an office all such competition is excluded:<lb/>the right of selling that particular sort of labour<lb/>is made a monopoly of in favour of the man in <lb/>office. <del>Let the price be</del> Leave the price to the<lb/>discretion of the seller and it will have no other<lb/>limits than what are set <add>presented</add> to it by the necessities<lb/>of the buyer. If in order to recover a debt for<lb/>example of 10£ it is necessary you should get a<lb/>certain officer to set his hand to a certain paper,<lb/>what should [hinder <add>induce</add> him from exacting nine] be his<lb/>inducement to take less than nine? Fees of office<lb/>ought therefore in every case to be settled with the <lb/><note>utmost</note></p> | |||
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47
Indirect
Corpus delicti
§ Publication of fees of office
9. Fees of office
Extortion in the way of office:
Annext to every office which is not a sinecure
are certain duties: these duties consist in the
rendering of certain services: services which are such
either to the public at large or to individuals in
detail. As a tradesman sells his goods, so of
course will a workman his labour [will an officer [sell] his services ], as dear as possible]
for as much money as he can get. Competition, and
the facility of going to another market will keeps
down the price this disposition within the limits of utility in the
case of ordinary labour. But by the establishment
of an office all such competition is excluded:
the right of selling that particular sort of labour
is made a monopoly of in favour of the man in
office. Let the price be Leave the price to the
discretion of the seller and it will have no other
limits than what are set presented to it by the necessities
of the buyer. If in order to recover a debt for
example of 10£ it is necessary you should get a
certain officer to set his hand to a certain paper,
what should [hinder induce him from exacting nine] be his
inducement to take less than nine? Fees of office
ought therefore in every case to be settled with the
utmost
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