[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