1821 Aug. 19 Codification Offer Abridgmt '.9. Draughtsman gratuitous '.3

Factitious [...?]

A course that, presents itself in the next place is - to attach to this service

remuneration in a pecuniary shape to a determinate mount, receivable by one or

some other determinate and thence limited number of individuals, to be chosen in

the way of election by the whole of the legislative body: namely either before

the service rendered, and thence in expectation of the receipt of it, or not

till after the service rendered, and thence in recompence for it.

From the preceding page p.

The pay being a determinate object, with a value to which every eye would be

sensible would of course be the principal object: the goodness of the service at

the best a secondary one - the appointment, or the vote towards the appointment

would in each instance be given - not to the individual who was regarded as

having rendered or being liable to render the best service, but to the

individual whom, whether on his own account or that of some connection of his it

would be most agreable to the patron in question to see thus served.

Such would be the most probable, or rather the only probable result, according

to any mode of appointment which the nature of the case admitts.

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