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<p>From "Memoirs relative to the State of India: by Warren<lb/> | |||
Hastings Esq." A new Edition with additions London<lb/> | |||
Murray Fleet Street 1777.</p> | |||
Another defect in the present constitution of the Board of<lb/> | |||
Trade consists in the number of its members. Four members<lb/> | |||
have been thought sufficient by the legislature of Great Britain,<lb/> | |||
for the general government of India; and the Company<lb/> | |||
have thought fit to continue the original number of<lb/> | |||
members in the Board of Trade, which is no less than eleven<lb/> | |||
For what purpose is there so great a difference? It will<lb/> | |||
never be alledged, that the objects of deliberation of the latter<lb/> | |||
are more important or numerous than those of the former. St <lb/> | |||
will perhaps then be said, that they have a greater detail<lb/> | |||
of executive transactions. This is not true; and if it were<lb/> | |||
admitted, I would require no other grounds for reducing the<lb/> | |||
number; for I affirm, and every man who has been conversant<lb/> | |||
in the practice of Boards must be sensible, that the detail of<lb/> | |||
minute executive transactions is more correctly and expeditiously conducted by a few, or even a single man, than by many. | |||
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From "Memoirs relative to the State of India: by Warren
Hastings Esq." A new Edition with additions London
Murray Fleet Street 1777.
Another defect in the present constitution of the Board of
Trade consists in the number of its members. Four members
have been thought sufficient by the legislature of Great Britain,
for the general government of India; and the Company
have thought fit to continue the original number of
members in the Board of Trade, which is no less than eleven
For what purpose is there so great a difference? It will
never be alledged, that the objects of deliberation of the latter
are more important or numerous than those of the former. St
will perhaps then be said, that they have a greater detail
of executive transactions. This is not true; and if it were
admitted, I would require no other grounds for reducing the
number; for I affirm, and every man who has been conversant
in the practice of Boards must be sensible, that the detail of
minute executive transactions is more correctly and expeditiously conducted by a few, or even a single man, than by many.
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From "Memoirs relative to the state of India: by Warren Hastings Esq" / A new Edition with additions, London, Murray, Fleet Street, 1777 |
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