Jan y 1807

Facienda

V. Abolition of fees

5. Substitution of Salaries to fees

5. Conversion of fees into Salaries

5. Abolition of fees or conversion of them into Salaries

 Shall /put[?]/ the mischief of payment in judicature? then go on thus

If my conception of the matter my Lord be just, the rules of [...?] policy on this subject lie within a narrow compass -

Particular abuse apart were in not for the abuse which in most cases is so apt to grow out of them, remuneration a given quantity of the matter of reward would be applied /administered/ to most /more/ advantage in the shape of fees than in the shape of salary.

Why? 1. Because in the shape of fees, you may so connect reward with service, as that some how or other unless the service be performed the reward shall not be received. Whereas when it is administered in the shape of salary the reward is paid whether the service be performed or not performed.

2. In so far as the goodness of the service of the work in the doing of which the service consists depends upon alacrity, upon the pleasure with which the performance of the work is or is not accomplished fees have a manifest advantage over salary. Reward, does it not sweeten labour? - Yes: but not unless they are served up in the same dish.