1821 June 18

Codification Offer

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

Suppose a remuneration undertaken for, then /thereupon/ come the diversifications

and with them a correspondent choice of evils

I. Remuneration

1. The remuneration may in value and shape be unliquidated or liquidated

2. Supposing it in the whole or in part pecuniary In respect of time of payment

with reference to the performance of the service, it may be purely antecedent,

purely subsequent, or purely concomitant, in the whole or in part: or in any

proportions mixt

II. Number /II. Candidates - Number of/ of the persons by whom an assurance or a

chance of obtaining it shall be possessed

If one only, the chances against the obtainment of the most apt are an indefinite

number to one: and without all emulation all motive for extraordinary exertion

being excluded, even that one will not be so apt as by competition he might have

been rendered.

If a number, then by what number? Shall they each /every one/ of them, as many as

offer /send in each of them a Draught/ be assured of pay, or shall the pay be

confined to a limited number

III. Patrons number of

If the number to be paid for be limited, then so it may be that more draughts

than there is pay for may be offered. In that case some person or persons there

must be to determine by whom the several lots of pay shall respectively be

received. This person or these persons are thereupon patron or patrons with

relation to the office: Patrons Shall there be more than one? if more, how many?

What may be true is - that by refusing pay, you may exclude men in a number more

or less considerable, who if pay had been given, especially if from the

commencement of their labours might have been admitted.

What at the same time is not the less true is - that by the establishment of pay,

you can not fail in the first place to impair the quality of the work, in the

next place to impair the popularity of it - lessen the confidence that will be

likely to be placed in it, and thus in a double way impair /lessen/ the

usefulness of it.