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1821. Nov r. 28.

Codification Proposal

'.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

degree of aptitude which a greater length of time would have given to it: the ablest workman either shrinks from the work, or by haste is prevented from giving to it that degree of aptitude which, in a greater length of time, he would have given to it.

2. The work will be apt, not to say will be sure, to linger - if the reward, in the shape of pay and in all shapes taken together be so ordered, that the workman sees more profit for himself by delay than by dispatch.

3. The work will never be executed at all, if the connection between reward and service be so formed, that, on the completion of the work, the condition of the workman would, instead of being bettered, be, or be in danger of being, rendered worse.

An example of this last arrangement, and of the effect of it, may serve for the second likewise.