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tars off v the F had Cent sod the 41 Fe* 1:7:!, • ' A • . • , .... ‘ 4 A '". l S. A aok place, that that to gratify et • the subject, as it was not denies' dad the ,eondition i Mr I .MA,NNING said, the Hon. Member for Aber.' rions impo n s i ti qu On i s re t d o inttihit first th was e t , had 'Devi complied with; at all even* by the Land deen.insinsaire mistaken the meaning of his Hon.- posed. T intended to be conveyed by this Petition against the Magistrates Tax Redemption Act he could me_ Po flammable ob- , Mead the Member for Devizes, who was now absent. as (Meer for superannuation allowance,- he m ast of Sontersetshire ? Mr. BeNUT said, he knew mo or wo was to blame; whether jeetion to the progress of the Bill. ills , Mon. Friend said that the Bank would'inake no have served a certain term without interruption ; It was the perpetual Under Sheriff the Magistracy. . Mr. ELLICE said, that however Hon. Members charge for the transfer from one fund to another. This and next it fixed the rate of allowance respectively Mr. DICKINSON replied that there was uo perpetual might agree upon the construction of these Acts, the related to all who assented to the present measure. For . for each class. In Ireland the provisions of this Act V lti e e r CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, the in: House ought to be satisfied that it was proceeding this the Bank never expected payment. But it had l had not been so soon introduced, but the Treasury divigusl In question had been confined for fraudulent conduct, acc ording to law. He could not comprehend the never been said that the Bank intended to forego the ` had laboured to carry it into effect in that kingd 1 which had been put - • the particular usual consideration under the Act of 1808. The de- He would now shew the manner in whi:h the Act . . of the 1m- had been applied ; and for this purpose he would ~. independent - of the pecuniary debt to the Crown. construction upon After a few words from Mr. Bum, iu explanation, the Act by the last Right Hon. speaker. He thought Petition was ordered to he on the table. twenty : five millions of the Debt ought to be really NAVY FIVE PER CENTS. BILL. and bona fide reduced before the Stock in question On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the were paid off. He was aware that a plausible answer EXCHEQUER. the Order of 'the Day for the third to the objection had been offered in a reference to the reading of the Navy 5 per Cents. Bill was read. The Land Tax Redemption Act ; but he misted that some Right Hon. Gentleman then moved the third reading in . dividual holder of this Stock would try the ques of the Bill. tion before a legal tribunal. He wished to ask the Mr. TIERNEY requested the attention of the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite upon the House, but particularly of the Right Honourable and clause respecting trustees. He feared the language Learned Gentleman the Solicitor-General, while he of the clause wat not sufficiently general ; and if there stated the legal objections which the holders •f that was the least doubt upon the subject, he trusted it Stock had to the present Bill. For his own part, he would be removed. He believed there was another did not mean to give any opposition to the passing of clause giving to the trustees of persons residing the Bill, but he thought it was incumbent on the abroad the same time to dissent which those persons House to reconcile or remove the difficulties which themselves would have if the Stock stood in their former Acts of Parliament had thrown, or seemed to own names. The same doubt applied to this clause. have thrown, in the way. It had been stated on a He should not oppose the third reading of the Bill. preceding night, that so much of the Public Debt had The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the thirst been redeemed by the operation under the Commis- stated all guardians, trustees, &c. In the word at sioners of the Land Tax as was required by the Act was included every sort of trustee. of 1797, that was, the 37th of the late King. Whe- Mr. WILLIAMS complained of the conduct of the ther the operation of the Commissioners for the Re- Bank in regard to their manner of receiving the dis-1 demotion of the Land Tax applied to the 37th George cents. •He had gone to the Bank, and was informed the Third, or to another purpose, was not the ques- by the clerk there that the erasure or alteration of one Lion then, nor would he trouble the House with any word in the printed form would make it void. He observations on it. It was not on that score the thought the greatest facility ought to be afforded holders of the Stock complained. But they corn- those who were to dissent, and the Bank had no right plained that they were debarred by the Bill then be- to throw obstacles in the way. fore the House of the benefit arising from a twelve- Mr. LUSHINGTON said he had written to the months public notice, to which they felt that they Governor and Company of the Bank on the subject ; .were by law entitled. In the Act of 1797, certain and he could only suppose that the recent circum - • and for the stance alluded to by the Hon. Member must have ori priving them of this would be a breach pact between Parliament and the Bank. The Bank were responsible for all forgeries which might be committed' in the course of the present transaction, land the adopting of the present clause would of course be relieving them from this liability. Mr. GRENFELL said, that at the rate of 3001. per million of the - capital debt, the charge, in consequence of that Act; if any charge were to be made, would amount to a sum of between two and 3,0001. per an num. In the present embarrassed state of the coun try no such charge ought to be submitted to. The state of the country loudly called for retrenchment and economy, and for that reason he heartily agreed, some nights back, in the motion against the two lay Lords of the Admiralty. But the effect of the usual charge for that additional capital would destroy the saving gained by that motion. He recommended the House to make a stand against the principle of this Bill. seeing that it might be acted upon at some fu ture time again, in a plan for the reduction of the 4 per cents. into 3 per cents. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be considered that the Bank had as good a right as any other Corporation to be remunerated for their trouble ; but the clause now proposed was not only adverse to such a principle, but would violate an Act of Parliament. Mr. HUME said that a Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Huskisson) had said, in a debate on a former night, that he did not consider the Bank entitled to the allowance, and it would be but fair to the Public to remit it. app. ; take the retutns which were before the House since May last, having then been called for in order to chew the mode in which the Act was applied. it would appear that retrenchment had been carried OR with a rigour, which at least would leave very little room for the charge of extravagance against Mi nisters. He would next take the great Revenue De. partment, consisting of the offices of the Customs and Excise. The total amount of the salaries for the officers of this general department in May last was 1,664,0001. and the number of persons in active se t ., vice amounted at the same period to 17,347 ; the number of persons on superannuation alls.r.vances at the same date was 173,2, receiving the sum , :f151.,65ty. being about 9 5 / 4 per cent. on the total sum p a id for actual services. The number of persons then u %es, annuation allowance, as compared with tl.e numb er of those in actual service was as one to ten. 'the average amount of allowance to each person, there fore, was eighty-nine -pounds five shillings a year, or 4s. 10d. per day ; and it would be seen also, that the average period of service was very nearly 29 years, although a great number of the officers were obliged to conform to this regulation, who had been appointed at a time when one much more favourable had been in practice. He would now call the attention of t h e Committee to the other great public departments...— These consisted of the Treasury Offices, Offices of State, of the Privy Council, Colonial Office, State Paper Office, and sunch y other Offices, all of which he would comprise under the general head of the pi in cipal Executive Offices of State. The total number of offir ..ncif -- this head amounted in May tst 953. provisions were made for the 3 per cents.. 4 per cents. and also for the 5 per cents. In that Bill there was a clause declaring the 3 and 4 per cents. to be redeemable at any period. But the 5 per cents., were not iedeemable by that Act until a sum of 25,000,0001. of the Public Debt was redeemed and paid off. The Right Honourable Gentleman then called for the volume of the Statutes containing the 37th of George the Third, and referred to the clauses which provided for the redemption of the 3 and 4' per cents. in the manner and according to the tenour' prescribed by the 25th of George the Second. By the latter Act, all the 3 per cents. were consolidated, and were redeemable after twelve months notice, which was to be published in the Gazette, and to be fixed up in the Itoyal Exchange. The question was, whether the twelve months notice did not apply to . the 5 per cents. also, as well as to the 3 and 4 per cents. The Act of 1797 required that 25,000,0001. of the Public Debt should be paid off, before any of the 5 per cent. Stock was redeemable, and the 25th of George the Second, to which the 37th of George the Third referred, required twelve months notice. Both these conditions were to be fulfilled, and it was then, and not until then, that any of the annuities created by that stock were to be paid off. He con fessed that to him there seemed to be a vast dif ference between the words .‘ redeemed" and ig paid off," and he did not think the Stock standing in the names of the Commissioners for Redeeming the Na tional Debt could be said to be " paid off." The object which he (Mr. Tiezney) had in what he then addressed to the House was, how they were to get )y t. ginated in some mistake. Mr. WILLIAMS said he knew more than ten in stances in which the Bank refused to receive the dis sent of persons. He thought a simple form ought to be made out for the convenience of those who were inclined to dissent. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, all that was required • by the Act was to signify the dissent in writing, signed by the party, or their agents duly au thorised, and any obstacle thrown in the way was certainly illegal. Mr. WILLIAMS said the Bank was doing all in its power to prevent the dissentients from going in with their notice of dissent. Their conduct was ille gal. The Act required no such form as that adopted by the Bank. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL observed, that what he meant to say was, that the Bank had no power to refuse to receive the notices of dissent. Mr. WILLIAMS complained also of the order in which the dissentients were to be paid. The conduct of the Bank had the effect of altering the numbers of those whose dissents they refused. The Bank took on itself to do what it had no right to do. Mr. J. MARTIN cited similar instances of obstacles thrown in the way of dissentients by the Bank. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ob served, with respect to a question put by an Hon. Member (Mr. Ellice), that one trustee out of many entering his dissent, would give the benefit of that dissent to all the trustees, as well as if all of them had actually entered their dissent. With respect to The Marquis of LONDONDERRY considered the saving proposed to be made of so little conse quence as that it ought not to be put in competition with the maintenance isf good faith with the Bank. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said, that he was sur prised to hear the Noble Marquis speak so lightly of a saving in this instance, when, but a few nights since, he enlarged upon the necessity and impo-tance of even the smallest saving to the Public. The real question before the House was, whether or not, when the interest of the Pub& Debt was to be lessened, the allowance to the Bank was to be increased? The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, he had not argued on the amount of the saving, but on the force of a contract, which ought not to be violated in the case of a large or a small sum. Mr. RICARDO said, that it appeared to be ap prehended that the Bank would have additional trou ble by the increase of the capital in the new Stock.— The fact was, that no additional duty would be im posed on the Bank, as the number of transfers would be about the same in the new Stock as in the old. And he should further remark, that it always ap peared to him a great inconsistency, that the Bank should receive the same remuneration for transfers in the S per cents. as in the 5 per cents. for in the higher Stock the number of transfers was by far the greatest. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY said, that the object of the proposed clause was to take away from the Bank the remuneration which they were entitled by contract to receive. Mr. HUME.—The object of the clause is to leave . officers under , Ku may The number of superannuated petsons to 70, or about one in every fourteen in actual service. The reason why the number of superannuations was so small, was that the Gentlemen who enjoyed the offices were un willing to retire, as long as they found themselves ca pable of doing the duties of the situation. The amount of salaries to persons in active service was 205,0001. the amount of superannuation was 23,0001. being about llt per cent. on the amount of salaries. It would strike the House that the allowance for su perannuations was considerably beyond the propor tion of that of the Revenue department. Host ever, the reason was, that as the offices in the latter instance were of considerably greater importance, requiring =en of superior character, and as they had larger sa laries, it was thought reasonable that their alloa ances ou retirement should likewise be increased. The average allowance to each person was 329/. a year. He thus felt entitled to say that the operation of the Act of 1810 had been in every respect just and fair to the public and the servants of the Crown. He was will ing to admit that there were many defects is that Act. One of those defects, which it was his wish to amend, was the want of equability between the scale of al lowances and the period at which the parties be came entitled to those allowance. For instance, by the regulations of the Act in question, a person who had served ten years, and under twenty, was entitled to retire on half his salary ; but on from twenty to t,rty five years service there w.ts no increase. It was there fore plain that a great number would be induced to There was also a Virell.b, over the difficulty of the notice which was required by the 25th of George the Second ? For his own part, he declared he did not conceive how that obstacle was to be removed, and he hoped one of the Hon. and Learned Gentlemen opposite would be able to satisfy the House on that point. The Right Honour able Gentleman again referred to the Acts, and said he did not mean to throw any embarrassment in the way of the Bill. It was, however, his opinion, that the House should not suffer the present Bill to pass, without being fully satisfied on the point to which he had called their attention. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said, that the no. tice of twelve months, which was required by the Act of George the Second, to which the Right Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Tierney) referred, did not apply to the Five per Cents. He would not say that if the present measure regarded holders of Three per Cents. and not holders of Five per Cents. it would be com petent for the House to effect it without twelve months notice ; but if persons holding the Three per Cents. made no objection to the want of notice, all the conditions of the Act referred to might be sup posed to be complied with. By the thirty-seventh of the late King, the holders of the Five per Cents. were liable to be paid off when twenty-five millions of the Three per Cents. were paid off. But the holders of those redeemed Three per Cents. hay ing waived the objection as to the required notice, the holders of the Five per Cents. could not say that the Statute was not complied with, when the holders of the Three per Cents. were themselves satisfied. He hoped what he had said was a sufficient explana tion of the points on which the Right Hon. Gentle man had so much doubt. Mr. TIERNEY said his objection was, that by the mode which had been adopted for paying off the S per cents. the holders of the present Stock had been injured. The holders of the latter had been no par ties to the arrangement with those of the S per cents. and they were now taken on the sudden. Mr. they-were thought the whole question turned upon the construction of the words " paid off." In the Act which had been mentioned, it was evident ly the form of this dissent, there was no objection in law to the form given out by the Bank. Mr. WILLIAMS said that the Right Hon. Gen tleman (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) seemed to have misunderstood him. What he said was, that persons waited at the Bank on Saturday last, to give their dissent, and the Cashier refused to receive it be. cause it was not in the form which he wished. He wished to know how such a person was to act, and in what order he was to be paid ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if the individual handed in his dissent, he had a right to be paid in that numerical order. So few, however, would be the dissentients, that no one could lose by it, even if he was put out of his numerical order !! Sir J. NEWPORT said, that on a former night it bad been stated that the Bank of Ireland received no remuneration for any trouble occasioned by the trans actions connected with the public disbursements. He was of opinion, that as the Bank of England was to be indemnified for their trouble in that transfer, the Bank of Ireland ought to receive an indemnity in the like proportion. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said there would be no occasion for any indemnity to Ire- 1 land, as no trouble would be given them. The Bill being then read a third time, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved for leave to bring up a clause for granting, until the 30th of June, DM, for the Accountants-General in Chancery and in the Exchequer to signify their dis sent, which was granted. The clause was brought up, and is entitled " A Clause for directing the dim : sent of the Accountants-General, 4w." and read a first and second time. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER the clause was read a third time, and ordered to be added by way of rider to the Bill. Mr. HUME said, that on a preceding night it had been stated by one of the Directors of the Bank of England, the Hon. Member for Devizes (Mr. Pearse) and by the Hon. Secretary to the Treasury, that a charge ought to be made by the Bank for the addition to the capital of the Debt. The Bank charged at the £3OO them the same amount of remuneration as before. Mr. T. WILSON considered that the force of the contract was so great, as that the House was not in a situation to go between it and the Bank. He be lieved that no additional trouble was imposed on the Bank ; but, with this persuasion, and with all his anxiety to save the public money, he still felt that the House was not competent to distuob the contract The clause was then put, and negatived without a division. On the motion that the Bill do pass, Mr. W. WILLIAMS said, he would read an ex tract from a speech of Mr. Pitt, spoken in 1784, in confirmation of the views which he (Mr. Williams) had the honour to submit to the House on a former night. The extract which he then read was to the effect, that any interference with the Public Debt, which had not for its object the reduction of the said Debt, ought to be deprecated.—The Bill then passed, and was carried up to the Lords. SUPERANNUATION ACT. On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHE QUER, the House resolved itself into a Committee of the whole House on the Superannuation Act. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that in proposing some amendments of the Superan nuation Act, he felt it necessary to enter at some de tail into the measures, which, in conformity with the recommendation of his Majesty in his Speech from the Throne, and the promise of the House in answer thereto, it was thought advisable to adopt for the reduction of the public expenditure. He apprehended that he would be taking the course most likely to put the House in possession of the necessary information, if he were to begin with explaining first the course' , which had been formerly adopted with regard to those who were entitled, on their retirement, to an allowance from the Public, in consequence of age and services; and next to explain the nature of the measures, which had been the result of a careful re vision of the former imperfect system. With respect to the retirement allowance of Public Officers, he un derstood it to be now settled, that the legal right of granting superannuation allowances was vested in' his Majesty, and in some cases in the Treasury. It _ . retire after twenty years service. regulation that none under sixty-five years of aye should have more than threc-fouiths of his saLry: but it appeared to be much more advantageous that a scale of progressive increase should be established. He should propose as the best mode of effecting this, that the whole period of service should be divided into terms of five years, adding one-twelfth ot - the amount of salary for each term of five years. AL the same time that he should propose some regulation of this kind, he should also propose to leave a di,cre tionary power to fix a rate of allowance without re ference to these rules. He intended this to meet cases wherein the appointments were of a nature that pre cluded their being held by young men: for instance, the situation of Solicitor to the Treasury obviously required those qualifications which a young man could not be expected to possess. A Gentleman for such a post must be a man of experience, learning, and high character at the Bar, and it would be un just to place a person so endowed on a level with a young maa of seventeen, who entered at the bottom of the list into office. He proposed to vest, by the Bill which he should submit to the House, a power in the Treasury to meet such cases, with a proviio that all such extraordinary allowances be laid before Parliament at its next meeting, with the reasons on which the Treasury found their grant. Another de fect in the Act was, that it did not point out in a suf ficiently clear way those persons that were entitled to claim superannuation allowances--(thar).-- In the Bill by which he proposed to supplant this Act, he should provide that all persons should be entitled, provided they had served during the time prescribed. Judicial and Exchequer appointments were to be considered as special in this particular, the Treasury exercising this qualified power of fixing the amount of pension. But, in order to render the pri:'- ciple of Superannuation as equitable as possible, he should propose that those who, upon retirernentovere to be entitled to claim a participation, should, during their service, contribute towards the fund. This might be regarded as a reduction of salary, but it was thought a more unobjectionable mode to make that they referred to the condition that a given sum should be paid off before this Stock should be re deemed. The clause stopped at the words " paid off," and did not go on to state any particular manner— [Mr. TIEUNEY, across the table, said, the particular manner of paying off was provided for in the 16th section of the Act].He begged pardon of the Right Hon. Gentleman: the whole of that clause related to the 3 per cents.—(lleer, hear).—He admitted that the per cents. as now constituted, could not be paid off without twelve months notice, whatever advan agei might offer themselves to Government to pay a ff within those twelve months. The argument of Right llon. Member would infer that Mr. Pitt tied himself up from paying off the Ftve per Cents. without twelve months nonce—an idea too ab to be seriously entertained. The language of Act itself was, however, as clear as possible .0 rate of __ for each million of capital, for of the National Debt. It was evident that such a charge for the addition to the capital by the present Bill, would bring a heavy burden on the country. The Hon. Gentleman then stated the amount of the Debt in 1808 to have been 613,000,000, and to have been since increased by one-third, or 200,000,0001. more, which, for management, brought a large an nual charge on the Public. Any one who would in quire into that subject, would find that the Bank re ceived annually no less than 270,000/. for manage ment. He held in his hand a clause for providing, that there should be no charge for management on the sum of sit or seven millions added to the capital of the Debt by the operation of that Bill. The Hon. Gentleman having stated the effect intended by the clause, hoped there would be no objection made to it, and asked for leave to bring it up. must be confessed, that up to the 30th of George 111. the system was very vague, and liable to abuses. The allowances were often made by grants of sine cures, or by an arrangement extremely inconvenient ; such, for instance, as this :—When an officer from age or infirmity retired, be received as a part of his allowance some portion of the salary of his suc cessor. It must be obvious that such a system was open to much abuse; but the Commissioners of Pub lic Accounts who revised this arrangement, recom mended in 1789 the introduction of the system of superannuation allowances, but it was not till 1797 that the Treasury acted upon this recommendation. Even this improved system was found to be open to much abuse, and in consequence of a careful revision of the practice, fotnided upon a series of important complaints, the Act of 1810 was brought into Par liament. This Act was intended to correct the va a reduction of that nature contribute towards this provision against the evils of infirmity, rather than by a mere act of authority to cut down a portion of salary at once. The benefit was thus divided between the Public and the party suffering the diminution. — He proposed, therefore, in pursuance of this prin ciple, that a deduction for this purpose should be made on every salary above £lOO of 5 per cent. and under that sum, and above £5O, of 21 per tem. By referring to the papers he had already spoken of, it would be found by comparing the aggregate amount of the superannuation pensions with the agg: eoe amount of salaries, that the average rate upon the latter was 10 percent. so that 5 per cent. off all the sala• rics will cover one-halt; and be a saving to the l'ublic. It was his intention also to propose to effect certain reductions in salaries, to commence, however, unit the successors to those at present in office, whom he which reductions were to ionised to leave in they new had, with the 10 per cent. upon that portion tended to remit on the next • who now had a stipend intended to reduce to ' upon the 8001. and 10 per He assured the House that i up there and propose redr such like, than to carry them Even those who made the - to find how difficult and pan not have the heart to execute which Government had made ciently painful. After lat every official return that CI subject of investigation, a dressed to all the !leads of , of the Treasury, laying culcated was, the reducing to a level with those which 1797, as far as was practir %ad throughout been the •aad he hoped his Majesty's •ceire due credit for the di 'He would shew the House 'been made to operate on the slumbers of that Department four clerks, six assistant elf clerics, and others, making in whole amount of their solar; sth of January last, there assistant Secretary, four c) six senior clerks, eleven ass. junior clerks, which, with venue branch, and one ocher, whole. Upon a comparison this department now and in the latter year the number examined wasi463. In 1' considered and registered being only one-sixth of the emolument, it appeared tl receipts of a Secretary to For the three years ending For rlie three years ending For the three ?ears ending For the three years ending It was now proposed to re,r —what it was in 1797. years from 1779 to 1781, re( year 1797 it was reduced to then assistants, which had appeared, therefore, that in lament their situations were are now, their salary being :cent was to be composed assistant, four chief clerks, clerks, and eleven assistants, venue clerks thirty-six pers having been thirty. He next to compare the aggregate in the statement he was ticularly required the II( priety of making the rise in the progress of time, and must certainly appear very remain at the lowest rate of an opportunity for prow. The regulations for the fun chief clerks were to receive 800/. with an allowance of ' 8001. which would require assistant clet ks and juniors, the office till fifteen yea; the end of twenty years clerks. They were to begin that for three years, after - receive an annual increase who now received 3001. a for length of service, was to 1.51. annually, till it read} previous service. The mu the progression was very Cm the future were to have fond 8001. and when it was so small a number of Treasury Department, an. so long, that sum would not chief clerks commencing w 15001. The aggregate of , compared with 1796, was amount in 1796 was 1: was 56,7701. compounded partly of consideration for minimum was 46,0001. bp performed the period of tain the highest rank of be 64,530/. By the new was fixed at 41,9001. and The reduction, therefore, tween 64,0001. and 48,000/. nution—(Hear, hear). should mention was the . which a similar reduction the numbers were 31, now mum was then 18,0001. and but the maximum which 21,0001. exclusive of the —(ffear). Through all jesty's Government had , principles, and had effected tion—(blear, hear). The undergoing the same rev; then detail to the House. press his gratitude to the the cordial co-operation met with from them, wit! have got through what he this the more sensibly, as from being a grateful one ; she House that nothing ' Crown, and the weight Parliament could have be effectually accomplished be placed in one point of ductions, he would state -through all the other public before the meeting of Part" all they could with the Irhey had called before partments, and availed i sn pointing out any quarter Pthe hand of retrenchment. the examination of an • the full enjo th the except that portion the next at) pend of 1 • e to 8001. wo 1 10 per cm arse that it w ose reductiot carry them i nade the pro tit and painf t to execute it had made • After laborio rn that cool lation, a C eads of De. laying dow were to be e educing sala hose which as practica. peen the gui Majesty's for the dili be House hi rate on the I Department ssistant clerk , making in their salaries Lst, there we y, four chi' eleven assist• rich, with t d one other, comparison . low and in 1 'e number of 63. In 1821 . egistered w- ith of the 1. ;speared tha :retary to th years ending 1 years ending 1 years ending 1 years ending P:ed to recto 1797. Th to 1781, rece reduced to 8 vhich had si re, that in p ations were a lary being composed o ief clerks, on en assistants, ty-six person y. He next aggregate a he was as d the Hoe the rise in ime, and n• pear very ha west rate of or promoti• or the futur- to receive 1 wance of 2 Id require t- ad juniors, ti !en years, t y years 4001 :re to begin ars, after w 1 increase of !d 3001. a-ye 'ice, was to r ll it reache The mini was very cliff :re to have . when it WA umber of pe .ment, and tl n would not imencing wit ;regate at th 1796, was ; was 19,911 Impounded leration for ' 46,000/. but period of rank of sala r the new re ,9001. and t therefore, w. Ind 43,0001. hear). Th was the Sec reduction ha re 31, now tl 8,0001. and in which wa ye of the re. ough all th - pent had pr. had effected . ar). The Re same revisi to house. Ide to the H pperation an them, witho ;h what he sensibly, as rateful one ; : nothing b n re ot ther d recoidl p o int m % l h. rs ea l p v a g i u e t s i e l l b t r e o e l : i d ic ting of Pa& with the ere d before a,e• availed the any quarter renchment. r of au iutell i I 'i' •i•