JB/147/088/001

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Does the value it it more than it is worth?

1 is cheap only in the that the interest of the future
patrons is entirely disregarded which seems to have been the case.

Such is the view of the Honourable Kinsmen Committee are the objections arguments
the chief of the objections which plead against contingent
"interests":

But Reversionary grants may; it seems be defended
and now let us in by what and how
problem for the question has two sides

1 On the other hand (continues the Report) Reversionary
Grants may be defended as a cheap and economical
mode of confirming favour, of paying services
by expectation, rather than by natural Office or Pension.

A made of confirming favour?
sense and to whom added? to whom? To the
donor so far it might be of the by the donor
the gift were estimated at more than it was worth.
but what should make it so. Present rates of such
a reversion in and upon an average no more than aa sixth only of that of
the annu an annual ment to the same amount
in possession: amount value of a reversion of £3000
a year £500 a year and no more than this
is what he would set it at this is what he would
give the patron the donor credit for and as more
"by expectation instead of actual office or pension.
true it is that thus the favourite may with his service
or his no-service or his worse than no services
may be paid: thus it is that he paid be then may be may be paid but
time see at what expence.

Identifier: | JB/147/088/001"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
Date_1	1810-03-23	Marginal Summary Numbering	1-2
Box	147	Main Headings	Sinecures
Folio number	088	Info in main headings field	Sinecures
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	D9 / E1
Penner		Watermarks
Marginals	Jeremy Bentham	Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	49313
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