1821 Aug. 19 Codification Offer '.9. Draughtsman gratuitous '.2 Possible mode

of obtaining draught other than Committee

As in Spain and Portugal, so in every country in which the business of

legislation is in the hands of a body of Representatives chosen by the people

that part of it which consists in the preparation of any such body of proposed

law for the consideration of the whole Assembly will be in the hands of a select

few under the name of a Commission or Committee. In any such hands, besides its

being ineligible it is as far from being probable as from being usual, that to

the exercise of this function any particular factitious reward in the shape of

pay, or in a word in any other shape shall be attached.

But in hands so situated the business of preparing a proposed Code in the first

instance for the consideration of the whole body could not (it has been shewn)

be lodged without the most serious inconvenience: inconvenience in those shapes

which have been already brought to view.

The hands so situated being supposed rejected, hence comes the necessity of

finding some other hands for the execution of the work. For the obtainment of

such hands, factitious reward in some shape or other, at the expence of the

public, will either be given, or not. If in any such shape reward be given, the

number of those by whom it shall be capable of being received must of course be

limited: if no such factitious reward be given - if in the shape above

distinguished by the name of natural, reward be offered to view but in no other,

the number of those to whose eyes the prospect of it is opened, and whose

service in the shape in question may be obtained, in naturally unlimited.