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