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2 Inseranda 60
Observations
II Board
§. 10
Power of fining
case. As to reprimand whatever may be its effect
upon persons of a certain rank in the scale
of office, among the inferior ranks it is not
itself a punishment: and in cases where the punishment
threatened is regarded as too great an offence for
the offence, this or any other threat demonstration
of it is like the in terrorem clauses in a
Will, which when once understood to come
under that denomination, lose their terrific property
quality altogether. [+]
[+] Under a system
such as this half a
a dozen family of small children,
an inoffensive character,
or a powerful protector, will
give a man a
license, as it were,
for every negligence,
and for every species
of miscond misbehaviour,
short
of bribe-taking, embezzlement,
or peculation.
The natural consequence of
the want of appropriate gradation in punishments,
is, in the first place, a long course series of transgressions,
each of them slight in it perhaps slight enough, taken by itself, but
by which, taking them together, and adding the force
of example to the account, the prejudice suffered
by the service is by no means inconsiderable,
no inconsiderable damage accrues to the and when under the shelter of impunity
public service — and the at last terminated the habit of transgression has grown up to such a
height as to be no longer tolerable, then at last
by perhaps by comes dismission, by which
the individual is ruined. A By a fine of 10s,
20 or 40s imposed in time — imposed upon a first transgression -
might have kept the conduct of the same man for ever after
might perhaps have been for ever after kept for ever after within the path of duty.
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