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Things as they are

§.5. Matter of Corruption

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Note the case of fees in contradistinction to salaries: how they become public money.

Of the matter of good considered as applicable in the shape of matter of corruption by the hands of the Monarch to the breasts of the representatives of the people the following are the shapes which for the present purpose it may be of use to distinguish.

1. Money worthily /properly and without excess/ employed in consideration of services really useful: producing to the public a net mass of advantage over and above the expences of the purchase. This money will operate as matter of corruption, if and in so far as it tends to the production of services which whether beneficial or no to the interest of the Monarch and his subordinates […?] the ruling few are prejudicial to the universal interest: to the interest of the whole people.

2. Money employed in excess in the purchase of the like services: money employed in the character of overpay attached to overpaid places. Overpay has place alike whether the pay is twice as much as ought to be paid for the whole time, or the pay being sufficient for the whole time, no more than half the time is exacted.

3. Money employed in the purchase of service rendered in virtue of useless places /offices/.

4. Money employed in the purchase of services rendered in virtue of needless places. Needless places that are not useless i.e. useless in themselves, in respect of the nature of the service are useless in respect of the number: useless by being superfluous.

5. Money pretended to be employed in the purchase of service, when no service at all, useful or useless is needed: Many attached to sinecure offices /places/.

Note

For the nature and number of {Sinecure} /overpaid useless, needless and sinecure/ places of which the Church Establishment in England and Ireland is composed, see Church of Englandism examined.