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Title: [1821 July 9 Codification Office]

Description: 1821 July 9

Codification Office

'.9.

I. Pay of Useless places

List of Useless places.

1. The whole of the establishment kept up for the service of the person of the Chief functionary in the state in a Monarchy: kept up as the phrase is for the support of his dignity: for the maintenance of the lustre the splendor of his throne.

Proof of the uselessness of this office: the peaceful and flourishing condition of the Anglo-American United States in which in the federal State the pay of the Chief functionary is no more than /not so much as/ ,6,000 a year: and it is rather by imitation and prepossession, it should seem, than by any clear proof or view of a real and adequate demand to that amount, that in that instance the allowance of so large a sum was determined.

2. In every country in which the great body of the people profess to believe in the religion of Jesus in any shape, the whole of the pay allotted at the expence of the subject many under the notion of pay for teaching it and performing the ceremonies that /which/ have been attached to /connected with/ it. And note that pay produced by the occupation or rent of property in an unmoveable shape is so much received /extracted/ at the expence of the subject many: for by applying that same money to the provision made for real exigencies /the production money to that same amount /the suffering produced by the exaction/ might be saved /spared/.

Proof of the needlessness of pay drawn /forced exactions/ from this source, is the non-existence of any such system of exaction for the support of the Catholic Members of the Ecclesiastical establishment in Ireland.

Proof that no such contributions /exactions/ are ordained by /conformable to/ the religion of Jesus. No /text speaking of him as/ such exactions did he ordain: no text of the New Testament speaking of him as ordaining any such exaction is to be found: texts ordaining perfect equality among all professors of his religion are to be found /in existence/

JB_164_218.xml

Title: [[clxiv. 218] 1820 July 4 Emancipation]

Description: [clxiv. 218]

1820 July 4

Emancipation Spanish

?.8. Corruptive influence

Accordingly it is a notorious fact - that under no despotic monarchy is there any such waste of money on /emolument attached/ useless offices, needless offices, and overpay of overpaid offices, and above all on sinecure offices offices with pay given on pretence of service when no service is rendered, as under the British /English/ Monarchy the Monarchy of England with its appendages

JB_111_076.xml

Title: [nd [wm 1816] Things as they are]

Description: nd [wm 1816]

Things as they are

§.5. Matter of Corruption

2

Note the case of fees in contradistinction to salaries: how they become public money.

Of the matter of good considered as applicable in the shape of matter of corruption by the hands of the Monarch to the breasts of the representatives of the people the following are the shapes which for the present purpose it may be of use to distinguish.

1. Money worthily /properly and without excess/ employed in consideration of services really useful: producing to the public a net mass of advantage over and above the expences of the purchase. This money will operate as matter of corruption, if and in so far as it tends to the production of services which whether beneficial or no to the interest of the Monarch and his subordinates […?] the ruling few are prejudicial to the universal interest: to the interest of the whole people.

2. Money employed in excess in the purchase of the like services: money employed in the character of overpay attached to overpaid places. Overpay has place alike whether the pay is twice as much as ought to be paid for the whole time, or the pay being sufficient for the whole time, no more than half the time is exacted.

3. Money employed in the purchase of service rendered in virtue of useless places /offices/.

4. Money employed in the purchase of services rendered in virtue of needless places. Needless places that are not useless i.e. useless in themselves, in respect of the nature of the service are useless in respect of the number: useless by being superfluous.

5. Money pretended to be employed in the purchase of service, when no service at all, useful or useless is needed: Many attached to sinecure offices /places/.

Note

For the nature and number of {Sinecure} /overpaid useless, needless and sinecure/ places of which the Church Establishment in England and Ireland is composed, see Church of Englandism examined.