1821 Novr 23 Codification Proposal Abridgment '.9. Draughtsman gratuitous

The case being a case of patronage Those evil effects, will have place, whatever

be their amount, in whatever hands the power of patronage be lodged.

It may be lodged in that branch of government which is purely legislative: It

may even be lodged in the branch stiled the executive branch; for, by the

supposition, the draught can not receive the force of law but from the hands of

the branch stiled the legislature. If in the legislature, the hands it is lodged

in will be either those of the President of the Assembly, those of a Legislation

Committee or those of the whole body of the Legislature: if in the executive

branch, the hands in which the appointment, (or under the Minister the

recommendation) is lodged, may be those of a Chief Minister, those of the

Minister of this particular department, those of the assemblage of Ministers, or

those of some Council of State. The choice may thus be made by appointment, or

it may be made by vote: but whether it be made in the one way or in the other,

still the case is a case of pay and patronage: as between the one mode of choice

and the other no sensible difference will have place.