JB/147/040/001

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22 March 1810
Sinecures

Fitness – the sort of fitness in question is a relative
quality – relation being had is a quality relative in a
double point of view respect – relative relative in relation
to the duties of the office, as well as in relation to
other persons considered as capable of being charged
with the same duties.

Not only are the qualifications of persons exposed
to change, but he business of offices is liable to change
likewise. For the business of the office as it stood at the time of the proposed grant, the proposed grantee
of the reversion was is compleatly fit at the time of such
proposed grant, he is no less so even at the time of the vacancy
he is no less so. Good Be it so: but in the meantime
the business of the office has undergone a change: a
change in quantity, or a change in quality, or both:
there is more of it to do now than there was then,
there is business to do of a sort for in which has had for want of he has had no experience: the business is
become too much for him or strange to him, or both,
and to which whatever be the cause, his relative
fitness relation being had to the nature and quantity
of the business that now comes to be done may be
in any degree departed from him.

Identifier: | JB/147/040/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-22	Marginal Summary Numbering	10
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	E7
Penner		Watermarks	TH 1806
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer	Andre Morellet
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year	1806
Notes public		ID Number	49265
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