1822 Feb. 17.

Thoughts on Official Economy

Rudiment to the 1st part. (ab intra?)

1 Function for which extra aptitude is necessary per[?] the list with

the several shapes in which the aptitude is required

including British India

2. do ab extra? - i.e. pecuniary. Every power left at command of

functionary for his own use is waste and corruption.

In regard to the Official Establishment in general - and the several

Offices contained in it in particular, that which the greatest happiness of the

greatest number /principle/ requires is that on the part of the Official person in

question there be the greatest degree possible of appropriate aptitude, relation had

to the service proposed to be obtained /rendered/ by the community from the execution

of the Office, and this at the least expence possible to the public purse: in other

words that the burthen pressing /thereby imposed/ upon the people /subject many/ in a

pecuniary shape shall be the lightest possible.

Here then throughout the whole of the Establishment are two [...?]

objects between which there is the most intimate connection, and in a certain degree

a conflict and competition - on the part of the functionary appropriate aptitude: on

the part of the people at large, exemption from unnecessary burthen in the shape in

question which is a pecuniary one.

In every situation be it what it may aptitude with reference to the

service for the rendering of which it is that a man is placed in that same situation

say appropriate aptitude may be seen to be composed of three distinguishable elements

and thence to be divisible into /of/ so many distinguishable branches: namely

appropriate moral aptitude, appropriate intellectual aptitude and appropriate active

aptitude

Division of offices into those requiring no aptitude but pecuniary

i.e. moral and those requiring extra intellectual and active aptitude.