036_088v.xml

Title: [[036-088v] 1821. Nov r. 28.]

Description: [036-088v]

1821. Nov r. 28.

Codification Proposal

'.9. Draughtsman Gratuitous.

I. On the part of the workmen, inaptitude in the shape in which it stands opposed to appropriate moral aptitude.

1. Be they who they may, the patron or patrons will be exposed to the influence, not to say subject to the dominion, of sinister interests and prejudices. This has been shown in Section the fifth. The dependent or protigo (for in English though we have the thing, we have not the name) will be under the dominion of these same interests and prejudices, and to these the draught will endeavour to give effect, with the addition of any such of his own as he thinks he can venture to steal in.

II. On the part of the workman, inaptitude not only in the above shape, but in all shapes: in those in which it stands opposed to the two other elements of appropriate aptitude, namely appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active talent.

The pay is a determinate and tangible object: an object to the value of which every eye is sensible: those of the patron or patrons, be they who they may, among the rest. In comparison of this - in competition with this - the goodness of the service, where it is in any degree an object, will generally speaking be at best a secondary one. The appointment, or the vote towards the appointment, will accordingly be given - not to the individual who is regarded as being likely to render the best service, if it be before the work is done, or as having rendered it, if it be after the work is done - but to the individual, whom, whether on his the patron's own account, or on the account of some connection of his, it will be most agreeable to him to see thus served.

III. On the part of the work, on the one hand comparative inaptitude through precipitation, or on the other hand needless and useless delay up to final non-execution, according to the mode in which the pay is connected with the looked-for service.

Apply the pay in one way, the work suffers for want of time to do it well in: apply the pay in another way, the work lingers, and for a time more or less considerable, the benefit of it is lost: apply it again in another way, the pay is continually received, and the work never executed.

1. The work suffers for want of time to execute it in - if, a time being fixed, after which no draught shall be received, the interval allowed is not sufficient for giving to the work that

degree

JB_024_425v.xml

Title: [1821 Nov. 8 Codification Offer Abridgmt]

Description: 1821 Nov. 8 Codification Offer Abridgmt '.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

1. Plans for obtaining proposed Codes by factitious reward, what, and why

ineligible.

By the application, factitious reward being in this case to be administered, the

case is thereby rendered a case of patronage: in a state of dependence, present

or recently past the persons looking for, or in possession of, the reward;

patron or patrons the person or persons to whose nomination or influence the

person or persons, in possession or expectancy of the appointment with the

reward attached, are or look to be indebted for it.

Every plan of appointment in which such patronage has place will be seen to be

ineligible. The following are the causes by which this ineligibility will be

seen to be produced.

1. The sinister interests and prejudices to the action of which the patron or

patrons in their situation stand exposed, have in '.5. been already brought to

view: to the action of these same causes of bad workmanship the dependant stands

necessarily exposed, together with any others which may happen to have

application in his own particular instance.

2. By the corruptive influence of patronage, the probability of appropriate

aptitude on the part of the workman, and thence on the part of the work, can not

but be greatly diminished.

3. Under the influence of this plan, the work in question will, according to the

mode of payment employed, be in all probability, if produced at all, either

inordinately delayed, or through precipitation deprived of more or less of the

aptitude which might otherwise have belonged to it.

4. By this mode of remuneration, the number of the works, which the legislature

might otherwise have had to choose out of, will unavoidably be narrowed.

5. To the evils of close workmanship as above, will thus necessarily be added

the encrease given in the present instance to the general evil of close

patronage, with its corruptive influence.

Such are the positions. Here follow the proofs.

1. That by the sinister interests in question the aptitude of the work in so far

as depends upon appropriate moral aptitude on the part of the workman can not in

this case fail of being impaired has been shewn already, as above.

JB_012_081v.xml

Title: [1821. Novr. 10. Codification Offer]

Description: 1821. Novr. 10.

Codification Offer

Abridgmt

'9. Draughtsman gratuitous

be sufficiently manifest that, in the case in question, competition would have for its object - for its principal object at least - not the service but the reward - that, in the bestowing of the appointment, or of their vote and influence towards it, the patrons would have more regard, each of them, to his own good wishes in favour of his protegé, than to the goodness of the service. Of his own good wishes, neither perfect understanding nor perfect care would be in any danger of failing: not quite so sure can be - either the goodness of his judgment respecting a man's aptitude for the service, or his regard for that same service.

The factitious reward being thus announced, announcement of the natural reward,

as above described, would or would not be added to it: if not, the factitious

reward would alone be thought of : if yes, then, as will be seen presently, then

would the factitious reward be needless; and being, as above, pernicious, worse

than useless.