036_194V.xml

Title: [[036-194v] 1821 Nov. 23 Codification]

Description: [036-194v]

1821 Nov. 23

Codification Proposal

Abridgm t

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

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 of aptitude which a greater length of time would have given to it: the ablest workman either shrinks from the work, or by haste is prevented from giving to it that degree of aptitude, which, in a greater length of time he would have given to it:

2. The work will be apt, - not to say will be sure, to linger - if the reward, in the shape of pay, and in all shapes taken together be so ordered, that the workman sees more profit for himself by delay than by dispatch

3. The work will never be executed at all if the connection between reward and service be so formed, that, on the completion of the work, the condition of the workman would, instead of being bettered be or be in danger of being rendered worse.

An example of this last arrangement, and of the effect of it may serve for the second likewise. Before me

JB_106_326V.xml

Title: [1821 Dec r 12 Codification Proposal]

Description: 1821 Dec r 12

Codification Proposal

Recapitulation

-[...?] of his mind be of a cast fitted for the task /adapted to the service/, the hope of seeing so much good done /have place/, the hope of knowing /seeing/ that it is by him that it is /has been/ done /has he himself for the author of it/, and the hope of seeing that /celebrity/ his is known to be the hand by which it has been done will be sufficient: in the case of the Native, in addition to all that body of inducement, expectation /an eventual expectation, warranted as it may be and should be by authoritative announcement/ having /including/ for its object all the most valuable offices pertaining the government /comprized the official establishment/ the hope of the choicest lots of factitious reward attached to ordinary official service.

That it is not only needless but [...?] prejudicial: namely by the admission it gives to the system of patronage: that the effect of this needless and expensive remuneration is to draw off from the service itself the attention of both parties, namely patron and protegé or expectant from the service itself to the reward. The patron will look out for the individual who not being demonstrably /manifestly/ usefit for the task is most agreable to him - the one whom it would be most gratifying to him to see thus provided for /served/: the protegé /Candidate/ to the neglect of the service that it is to the only legitimate end /object/ of it, would take for his object the recommending himself to the favour of the patron and demonstrating his gratitude by the execution given to it/ manner in which he executes it: demonstrating his gratitude, and at the same time paving the way for further occasions of demonstrating it.

That the factitious remuneration in whatsoever shape or shapes given could hardly be given without a greater or less probability of its either obstructing the design rendering the work through haste less apt than it would otherwise have been, or by giving an interest in delay or final non execution, retarding or preventing altogether the completion of it

That, so far from encreasing /giving encrease/ the number of the more or less apt works which the constituted authorities, the body of legislators at large would have to choose out of, the effect of the <...> became /constituted/ an object of patronage would be <...> it: for that whereas in the case of factitious <...> by patronage no man would think of entering /enter/ <...> a course of labour unless already paid for it, is already <...> sufficient assurance of possessing on /in/ the part /breast/ of the patron or patrons a /an adequate/ degree of favour, nor unless he regarded himself as being able in some way or other to compleat the task, and within the time [...?] in the case of the natural remuneration alone every man who regarded himself capable of giving marks of appropriate aptitude sufficient to afford him hopes of advancement to him would come forward with a work of greater or less extent, giving it as much aptitude as he was able to give to it, and giving to it as much dispatch and no more as he felt himself able to give to it without prejudice to its aptitude.

JB_024_413v.xml

Title: [1821 July 12 Codification Offer '.9. Draughtsman]

Description: 1821 July 12 Codification Offer '.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

In and by all this, no such position is meant to be asserted or insinuated, as

that, - all-comprehensive or not, furnished or not with a rationale as above - a

Code whereby, in proportion to its extent, real law were substituted to the

imaginary and sham law called Common or Unwritten Law - a rule of action more or

less approaching to certainty to one completely and everlastingly uncertain -

would not be a beneficial work: nor yet that if no workman of good promise,

content with the natural and inseparable reward, and thence serving

gratuously[?], could be obtained for the work, factitious reward might not in

any case be employed for the production of it: all that is meant is - that

supposing all factitious reward excluded, a much better chance for the maximum

of appropriate aptitude in every shape - on the part of the original workman and

thence ultimately on the part of the work - will be obtained, than would have

place if factitious reward in any shape were superadded: a greater number of apt

candidates with their respective productions would be likely to offer

themselves, and the best chance of acceptance would be possessed by the best

work.

How should it be otherwise? - In the case of paid service, the eye of the

workman would be fixt upon those from whom the payment would be looked for: in

the case of gratuitous service it would be fixt upon the public at large - upon

the whole body of the citizens in their quality of Electors: upon those on whose

good opinion the Judges of the contest would be in a state of dependence: in the

one case the exertions of the workman would to a greater or less extent, be

unavoidably directed, to the advancement of this or that particular and thence

sinister interest at the expence of the universal interest: in the other case

they would in an undivided manner be directed to the advancement of the

universal interest. They would have it is true, for their object the rendering

the work ultimately conformable to the public will: but at the same time by the

influence of the rationale on the public understanding, to the endeavour they

would add the hope of bringing the will of the public as near as possible to a

conformity with the interest of the public.