JB_024_430v.xml

Title: [1821 Aug. 19 Codification Offer Abridgmt]

Description: 1821 Aug. 19 Codification Offer Abridgmt '.9. Draughtsman gratuitous /'.10.

Legislation School/ /'.2. Advantages/

To the earning of a factitious reward in any shape some time (it will be seen as

above) mist of necessity be appointed. But to the time for earning the

abovementioned natural reward, no limitation need be or ought to be appointed.

The desire and endeavour to execute the work as well as possible and the

endeavour to execute it as promptly as possible will go hand in hand, and

operate as checks to each other. If by desire of dispatch, one man is driven to

give in his work in a state of aptitude inferior to that which by more long

continued labour he could have given to it, others may in consequence of this

inferiority obtain (he sees) the preference. If, through anxiety to give to his

work every degree of aptitude in his power he delays too long, others may step

in before him. If the reward be of the factitious kind only as above, his labour

is equally lost in both cases. If it be of the natural kind only, as above

explained, it can never be altogether lost: if appropriate aptitude in any shape

be displayed in the work let it come in ever so late, it will not come

absolutely too late.

The service to which the factitious reward is appointed can not be any thing

less than the production of an entire Code, applying to that part of the field

which is fixt upon for the purpose: to those only, who regard themselves as

capable of performing the service - of executing the work - in such entirety,

can any prospect of reward be open - any adequate inducement be presented. But,

in the field of legislation, over and above the masses of service they compleat,

others indefinite in extent, number, and value are capable of being rendered. To

the production of these minor lots of service, the natural reward, not having

any determinate limits to it, is compleatly well adapted. To him who, to the

satisfaction of the competent judges, shall have produced a body of law

extensive enough to cover the whole of the allotted field, and well enough

executed, - well enough if not to receive as the Spanish Constitutional Code

did, to receive, as it stands, and without any the slightest alteration the

legislative fiat, still well enough to serve as a groundwork, to which all

ulterior arrangements shall be applied in the character of amendments, - to such

a work will be of course allotted the largest share of estimation and naturally,

sooner or later the most valuable official situations. At the same time neither

need he by whom a suggestion of any the most inconsiderable arrangement has been

made, some encrease in utility in any shape be afforded by it, be left

altogether without reward: the reward being in the nature of it capable of being

bestowed and in any [...?] of an indefinite multitude of degrees, without any

addition to the expence

JB_113_144v.xml

Title: [1821 June 18 Codification Offer]

Description: 1821 June 18

Codification Offer

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

Give pay you may have workmen in any numbers who are averse to the work. /to whom

the work is more or less unpleasant./ Refuse all pay, you can have no workmen

who are not enamoured of the work: and forasmuch as public esteem and admiration

can not fail to attach itself upon every candidate, in proportion to the place

/allotted height of the level/ which by /according to/ the judgment of the

public eye is occupied by his work in the scale of aptitude by his work upon the

whole, the nature of the work considered the probability seems to be that on

these terms apt workmen more in number, and on the part f the most apt a work

possessing higher aptitude would be obtained than by factitious remuneration in

any shape and quantity in which it could be applied /the longer and more

laborious the undertaking is, the higher the degree of relish proved by it.

On these terms would candidates be wanting? Never fear it./

As on /in/ every other subject /cause/ so on this, the tribunal of public opinion

would not be corrupted: as in every other case where the judges are not

removable by the tribunal of public opinion, be the judges who they may, their

judgment is almost sure to be corrupted.

None it is true but them who could afford to work for nothing would attach

themselves to this work. But in every country more there are who to a competence

/aptitude/ in this respect, acquired or acquirable, add the capacity of working

for nothing: in England in particular they are innumerable /exist in multitude/

Even in /under/ the existing order of things were an invitation to this effect

given given by the existing rulers not only works of this sort would be obtained

in multitudes but among them even those on the good side having for their object

in view as well real as professed the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

What? and under any such expectation as that a work having that or any thing

appertaining to it for its object would be carried into effect? No most

assuredly: the very supposition is scarce endurable But this being the good and

honest side, this is the side on which talent may most advantageously be

displayed The value of the man in the scale of aptitude would stand manifested,

and suppose him able to open his mouth in Parliament with tolerable effect - to

have the gift of tongues in the parliamentary sense and the price he would fetch

in the market would be proportionable.

JB_113_010v.xml

Title: [1821 June 15 Codification Offer '. Draughtsman]

Description: 1821 June 15 Codification Offer '. Draughtsman gratuitous

Lay all factitious reward out of the question, this inducement is without a

rival, and conduct is determined by it. Add now the reward, the legitimate

inducement /motive/ but now a rival, and that rival inducement is a sinister

one. Here is a mass of the matter of reward which the patron has it in his power

to put into the pocket of this or that connection or dependent of his - an

/some/ individual perhaps even in such sort dependent, that by whatsoever the

one puts into the pocket of the other, he saves himself from so much loss. In

sech case according to probability, though by no means to a certainty, he will

not put the reward into the pocket of a man flagrantly /compleatly/ unapt: still

however among all who present themselves to his view as capable of passing

muster without flagrant disgrace to himself, the odds will be an indefinite

number to one against his taking in such a case that proposable individual in

whom, even in the eyes of the patron himself the maximum f appropriate aptitude

would be to be found.

Suppose that to avoid or at least lessen this inconvenience, consideration had of

the importance of the service remuneration should be provided for competitors

more than one.