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3 Inseranda
Observations
II. Board
S.9
Country Commiss
would be apt to yield to his efforts importunity, and suffer the
unfit person, notwithstanding his unfitness, to continue
unremoved. Were both powers in the hands
of the Country Gentleman, the difficulty of getting
rid of an unfit officer would be apt to be still
greater. Render Resting on himself and on himself
alone, the task of taking away with one
hand the bread naturally a man be had been giving with the
other, would to most men be a most irksome invidious
and irksome as well as invidious task: a task too irksome to be
encountered, under any necessity less urgent than
what would be produced by some notorious and
specific instance of criminality on the part of the
subordinate. The individual — the Country Gentleman
— might, it is true, be less apt to make
an improper nomination, than the public body
— the Board: but having made such a nomination,
it would, generally speaking, be still
more difficult for him, than for the Board, to
repair the mischief of it. A Board is a screen:
and so thick a screen, that not only good and ill desert of
every kind but ill desert of every degree short
of punishable specific and flagrant criminality
are may be equally hid from every eye to which it is
opposed. Good man The right use of this
screen consists in withholding it opposing
it to every eye the influence and person scrutiny of which
would be prejudicial, removing it out of the
way of every eye + situated as though the scrutiny of it promises the the scrutiny of which will be
beneficial, to the public service.
+ situated in a
position where the
inspection exercised
by it promises to be
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