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' , FIRST REPORT Fran Ms SELECT COMMITTEE if FINANCE. The Select Committee appointed to Inquire into, and state, the Income and Expenditure of the United Kingdom, for the Year ended the sth of January, 1817, and also to consider and state the probable In come and Expenditure (so far as the same can now be estiniated) for the Years ending the sth of Ja nuary, 1818, and the sth of January, 1818, respetH Lively, and to report the samei together with their Observations thereupon, from time to time, to the House ; and also to consider what further measures may be adopted for the relief of the Country from any part of the said Expenditure, without detriment to the Public Interest. Havint; had under their consideration the state of various Offices in the United Kingdom; which are commonly, though incorrectly, known under the general denomination of Sinecures, conceive that they cahoot better discharge the duty imposed upon them by the latter part of the order of reference, than by bringing under the early notice of the House, the annual charge incurred by the continuance of Offices, either wholly useless, or the salaries of which appear disproport.onate to their actual duties 1 and of the system which they submit as et to be ached toted in their stead. The subject is by no means new to the House, having been brought under discussion at Various times within the last ten years, and particularly in the Session of 1812, when it was made thelounda. tion of a Bill, which having passed the House, was carried to the House of Lords on the 17th June, and in the Session of 1818, when the same Bill was car ried to the House of Lords on the sth April. The classification of the several Offices, and some of the provisions of that Bill, are followed and referred to in the,course of this Report. as the most convenient mode of conduiting the inquiry relating to them. The object of your ComMittee was to ascertain, First, what Offices may be reduced or regulated (after the expiration of the existing interests), with out doriment to the public service. Secondly, un der what regulations such of those Offices, as it may be deemed proper to continue, ought to be admini stered atter the expiration of the existing interests.— Thirdly, as it is obvious, that whenever such regu lations and reductions as are contemplated by your Committee, shall be carried into effect, the means of rewarding meritorious public service will be in great measure taken from the Crown, your Com mittee deem it indispensable that provision should be made for enabling the Crown, under proper re gulations and restrictions, to afford a reasonable re compence for the faithful discharge of high and effective civil Offices. OFFICES IN ENGLAND. The view which your Cominittee have taken of the two Offices of Chief Justice in Eyre, North and South of Trent. is, that they may be abolished with out detriment to the public service, and the amok melts thereof become a future saving to the public ; Tepid being had in these, is well as in every other Of f ice which forms the subject et this Report, to the existing interests. In the Ixchequer, reasons of a like nature exist for dealing in the same manner with the Offices of Auditor of ctie Eel: goer. Clerk ridge Pdlo. • • Fuur loner, ut t e Exchequer; so that whenever vacancies shall occur in any of them, the salary payable to the principal in such Office shall cease. and become a saving to the public. Warders of tin Cinque Ports. Oovittnol:of Ulu of Wista. The same rule applies to these tiro Offices, so that the salaries payable at the Exchequer. or out of any Peblie Funds, may cease, and become a future -saving to the pliblie. Commissary-General of Musters.--This Office may be abolished, without inconvenience to the pub lie service. Joint Paymaster•General.--The Office of one of the Joint Paymasters may also be abolished, being wholly inefficient and useless, with regard to all bu siness connected with the army but it must be re collected, that an effective and very important situa tion, without salary, has been frequently held, and is now held by one of the Joint Paymasters; for the discharge of which your Committee do not considerl the salary of ,000 at present attached to the Office of Snood Paymaster, as more than adequate; but they submit to the House, that it will be more con sistent with the system which ther wish to introduce, that the Vice-President of the Board of :Taade should receive a salary as such, than be paid indirectly ai cue of the Joint Paymasters•GeneraL One Deputy Paymaster-General.—The Office of Paymaster• General being recommended to be ese- 1 toted by one person, it follows of course that one Deputy in the Office will be sufficient, and that the Salary now received by the Second Deputy should be saved. There are 'Unger_ any • Deputp Paymaleset' abroad, acting by deputy; and the duties of all Depety Paymasters tikeareelem, *during. Peace, aitil transferred to the Commissariat. , The office of Paymaster of Marines is now dis charged .in person, .ender regulations adopted in 181$, without any deputy allowed, or paid by the public; but, as some harsher enquiries may be neces sary before year COMUliiioc.cen filially report Upon it, they deter their observations until the Estimaesii, for the Navy • shall come before then), with whisk this office is immediately connected. Upon the office of Paymaster of Widows' Pommes,' although no strong objections occur to your Cone. mittee against uniting it with the foregoing office, yet so long as it .continues at the low scale of ex pense at which it is now used, it does not seem cape. client to recommend any alteration fox the purpose of effecting a saving, which would, in any, be very in considerable. The annual charge is no more than /MO, and ample security is taken, amOunting to diSO,OOO -for the money in charge, - and for the punctual payment of nearly at70,(100, in very small sums, to two thousand two hundred widows, scattered over every part of the United Kingdom, and many of them sessdent abroad. It must be fur ther observed, that though the salary of this office, having been formerly paid out of the produce of old stores, ratios; annually voted in the Naval Estimat es , yet the appointment is not vested in the Crown, but in the Governors of this Charity. Law Clerk in the Secretary of State's Office...-It appeasing that au duties %rheum are annexed to this offices your Committee recommend that it should be altogether abolished. Collector and Transmitter of State Papers...TY same observation applies as to the last office. The inconsiderable offices of Principal House keeper, and Warehouse-keeper in the Excise Office, Established Messenger in the War Office, and some others included in the table of the Bill of 1812 and 1813, were at that time held as sinecures; with re gard to these, it is sufficient to lay down as a rule, that no person in future should be allowed to hold any inferior office of this description without . per forming the duty in person; and where no duty is at tached (as in the case of Cartaker to his Majesty) all such nominal offices should be suppressed. The offices of Joint Postmaster-General in England and Ireland do not appear to your Committee to come under the general description of those which form the subject of this Report. They are, there fore, not prepared at present to suggest to the House any alteration in the mode of conducting this impor tant apartment of the public service. If, on the one hand, they are strongly of opinion that it would be inexpedient to place this branch of the Public Re venue under the direction of a Board, with a consti -tution similar to that of ether Revenue Boards, as recommended by the Finance Committee of 1797, in their seventh Report ; on the other hand, they are by no Means prepared to state an opinion that the ma nagement of the Revenue of the Post Office. amount tag to England to a gross receipt of £2,116,087, and involving an expenditure of £593,620; and amount ing in Ireland to a gross receipt of £230,000, and in volving an expenditure of £148,000, together with the complicated concerns by which this Department is Connected with the convenience of the community, and the commercial interests of the Empire, can, 1 without disadvantage, be permanently confided to I one individual. Your Committee have learned with satisfaction, that, by the last Indenture of the Mint, the office of Clerk of the Irons has been merged in that of the Superintendent of the Machinery, which is a very ne- cessary and effective office; 'and that it is provided by the same Indenture, that the office of Comptroller of the Mint should, at the termination of the present existing interest, be executed in person by the present deputy, at the salary which he now receives; , thereby effecting a saving of the salary and emoluments of the principal. The office of Warden of the Mint it is understood, will, in like manner, be discontinued; as well as every other office in this department whith comes within the principle of regulation or abolition, which it is the object of your Committee to extend to all offices of this description. Clerk of the Parliaments.—Your Committee re commend that this office should be abolished ; and that the fees, it continued, should be appropriated towards defraying the Sessional expenses of the House of Lords. Four Clerks of the signet, and Four Clerks of the Privy Seal. —Your Committee are not aware of any detriment which can accrue to the public service from discontinuing these offices. the dutrof which is exe cuted by deputy. Comptroller General of Accounts, Excise, and in spector General .— These o ffi ces being conne cted with the collection aril management of the Rev e n u e ) eon having no efficient duties, ought to be abolished. Register to Commissioners of Excise ' • Inspottor- General of Coffee and Tea, &c. and all r.tber offices, whether enumerated in the Table to the Bill of 1813, or not, the duties of which are connected with the collection and receipt 9f the public revenue, ought, in the opinion of your Committee, to be abolished, so far as the salaries of those offices are payable to in. dividuals who do not execute in person the efficient duties of such offices. SCOTLAND. Keeper of the Great . Beal.—Your Committee re commeud that this Once should be preserved; but the salary re gulated, so as not to exceed 419,000 per annum. Keeper of the Privy Seal.—.ln recommending that this office should be continued, s salary of ISI,COO a-year appears to be suflicient. • - •I•be °Zee of Lord Juadoe-General —Yovr Committee re commend, that after the termination at the reisfing interest In this uCire, the President of the Cuurt of Session for the time being should assume the dtle, rank, and privileges of Lard Jus tice-General, anti that the salary now annexed to this olkee should he discontinued. Keeper of the Signet—AU the dudes of this office may be an mud to that of Lord Register, and the fees-should be carried to the public account ; and with respect to the once of Lord,iteo gister, a find salary of Al ,Sue a-year appears to be an adequate prov Woo. Knight Marshal.—The office to be retained, but the Way to fie discontinued.—Vice-Admiral.—Oltto. Governor iind other oilers in the Mint may he abolisitet The buildings of the Mint fa Scotland should be Meyers& of in such Manner as may appear to the Leeds of the Treasury snot Wean terms to the Crown. Receiver-General of Bishop's Rents, Auditor of Exchequer, Assistant Surveyor-General of Taus, Comptrollee•Ofteral of Caimans. " These dices may be Washed. The Cashier sad Reosiver-Clemeal of listclee --Your Cams& ten cannot ton *ma* InPrortbnir torlsion that this °Seale* to b e e gegglg t m perces; eat even Ming bits moslderatilit the amount of the security rostdred, which le statatito be ASSAM they an of optimise thatieeney of .11,10•••yeee weeldito es pla to lasers the regular attendance of a respeeilble pen= caw pecan to give wacky to that ansoset. Three old laspectoes of Wheel-caaviages, Gantt, Writer. and Ingenue-Omani of Roads, are eikees cob* abolished ; the lase being added to this list as Minded in Me Army Estimates. . 11111LAIIIN Clerk of tbe NM—Teller of the Isc6blow—Auditor4wiecaL TM acessary duties attached to these seas men cooties' to be performed, bat the eatery and easolsimente sew rowitabie4 .. the Principals, should become, as la the BROM Ischeittere a ' emits to tits public. Keeper of the Privy SaL—This ales k ear held for life ;bet „it should, after the tersainadon of the esineg tatareee. b e ended during plasma_ only, sod always awned to the alo e i f Chid ersaitary to the Lord Unmeant. - SerrepaGeoeset of Crowe Leads, Keeper of Records, Birminhaa Tower, Keeper of the Records of Parautest, • Clerk Of the Paper Odin These oaten have charge of puhlk domain, which mop be tesaafcfred to the hulldiug which has been Weatructal for the of the pubto records of kneed; sad the several hp. polmasets above entiaersted may be abethebed. Accounts' to the Bard of Omani Ofikers--Secretarp so Meta Gnaw mad airpervisor of Me Majesty e ranee Pres% c!Nelpse et the Robla Gamut, e Ma Rada, • . _ (ao Aar paid bun aka Chß Ll* • AOMINO, Barrack Dapartscat, barrack4Lanatnit aka Royal Banackri • Thaw Mesa inay be abolislisd, or if Jo any Imam Ay lan pogrom stlisastiifte iliasbed an Om, lebieb it I i WININIBY to milk 4irr may be Pesellesell en fiber Actin Aka. nilition ant_ aill .ii whatiner ii disk aniskoneserinek not any alkilined Moss sr Conatabbn dirt Cada alliaarfikeidCnadonisin-.44.1 YU edify payabk to these Akers out of the Civil Llat should become a saving to the public. The offices may, If neemary, be ribbed without salary. Clerk of the Conned, Mastermaster-Geneeal (held by two persons), Pradque Master of the Port of Dublin, Storekeeper of the Customs; The duties attached to these offices ought to be discharged la per -1011 by those who hold them, and the salaries now - paid to the principals to become a saving to the public. There were several other cakes enumerated in the Table an nexed to the Bill of t 813,in the Customs and Excite departments of the revenue, the dudes of which were not performed In person. Your Committee have learnt with Radsfaction, that to any of these Mikes which have become vacant since the passing of that Bill by the House, no appointment has been mad e by th e Irish Government ; an d that the salaries attached to them have been saved, by removing the individuals holding them to other Area live offices. They therefore have only to express their opinion that each of the dices enumerated in the Table as yet remain, should be abo lished as opportunities occur, and to recommend generally that the dudes of all Aces, of whatever description, costumed with the collection and receipt of the Public Revenue, should be per formed in person, by those who hold them, at reasonable rates of salary. !NOLAND. OMCIS ilf MOTS OP LAW 1W TAP 017 T OP TIM cams. The appitintamot to the under•mentioned Aces In the Coen of Exchequer having been stated to your Comminee not to be long to the Judges of that Court, but to be in the gift of the Crown, and it appearing that the duties of them are executed by deputy, there appears no reason for their beiercontinued, except epon such an establishment as may afford an adequate remune ration to the proper oaten hereafter appointed to discharge the duties In person. Kiog's Remembrantur, Clerk a the Phis. Omit of the Pipe. Comptroller of the Pipe, Deputy loco, Marshal, Foreign Ap poservburvryor and Re-critter Generator Grata Wes, Three Mes sergers out of four. Lord Treasurer's ltentrenbranter, Clerk of Foreign Es:mu, Clerl: of the Melia% Comptrollers of First nuke. ALIRNATION OMNI. Tbree Continitsioners."Reeelver General. two Entering Clerk% Miner In Clunrery, Sulleitor a the Exchequer. SCOTLAND. Director of the Court of Chancery, Clerk of the Court of Chancery, Principal Clerk in the Court of Admiralty, King's ' Remembrancer, l.ord Treasurer's Remembrancer in the Court of Exchequer, one of the Ckrks in the Pipe Office, Presenter of Signatures, Exchequer, Register of Steals, Clerk of the Admis sion of Notaries in the Court of Session. AU these Offices are understood by your Committee to be executed *holly by Deputy, and to came therefore within the principle of regulation or abolition, after the termination of the present interests. It is, however, necessary to observe, with respect to the offices of Director of the Court of Chancery, Pre senter of Signatures, and Register of Santos in Scotland, that as the duties of these three dikes are stated to be highly ins potent, and not only intimately connected with each other, but with th e • legal forms and proceedings on which the titles and security of reel estate essentially depend in that part of the United Kingdom, your Committee would, upon every prin ciple, abstain boss interfering with any of those legal forms and proceedings; and all which they have to submit with respect to the (Mikes in goatbs,ls, that the emoluments of them ought to be sOlvgnlated ns to kisses the due execution in person of their retinae* duties, by , individuals competent by their proles .sional knowledge to discharge those duties, and by their station is society to gtve seek security as may be deemed adequate to the extent and nature of the trust appertaining to each of diem respectively. IRELAND. All the Oakes Is the Courts of Law in Wend, Wed.d in the hat annexed to the Bill of tali, with the of those which have hitherto best Ice the gift of the Met 7sips of the Courts of Law in Ireland, ought, in the glides of year Cent. milts*, to be reluic'ed on *eh princtpk• so shall Imre the performance of their duties in person, by those who held them, at such just and remosable salutes as shall haat/Orbs deter. mined on. The following are the Offices iminierated In that List, Which ate undentood to have beano been in the notoleation of she' Crown . . Public Registrar of Deeds, Clerk of Cream bad Hamper. Chief Remembraneer, Clerk of the Pipe. Comptroller of the Pipe, Chirographer, Prothonotary, 'Ceases Mem; Protbooo. nary, King's Back • Crown Oiße , . Kisses Bench ; Trameriptee and Foreign Apposero Clerk et the Report Office Punstivant, Court of Exchequer ; Register of Forfeitures Usher of the Ea. chequer, Register. Coors of Chancery; Forfeiture , ditto; lerjeattt at Anne. Pleas ORes; Lei d 'freasomets, or eel Remembrance, Exchequer. Tee right of appointment to the Clerkship of the Pins rid* Court of Exchequer has been contested by the Chief Bata et that Court, and the right is mot yet finally determined. 'rise duties of the Accoustant.ekrieral of the Court of Chan cery are now performed in person by the individual who beide the Office, a vacancy having occurred slime the passing of the hill of 1113. The scene °Wanda° applies to the Me of Compeller of the Pipe. COLONIAL OFFICES. • Upon the Colonial Dices, suident manilas have not WI laid before your Committee for presenting them fully mei Mts. factorily to the view of the House; but the general pin* le be applied in dealing with them appears to be, in the %pt that of enforcing, to the utmost, residence IMAM dm or Foreign Postessioas to which thorn codices belle& social performance by the principal, of. the thane to them; the second object to be attained ought to beat eshaniso of the salaries to such a rate as may afford a fair and soihot.sw , convenes for the services to be performed; and my which can be derived from such regulations, should be tie (as the ease may be) i n aid of some of the public burdens dental to amoeba onsonmeent of such Colonies or Foreign Per sessions t obeer!es tardier. that In the old Colonies, any Ink syphon's= of catnap most be made at the recommendation of the Governors of sookCeindes, with the consent of the local ttigof midi. • olli g e s ek se state withsaccursey the aggregate amnia walla of all the Mese which have been mentioned. Those whisk &;- peed epeo feet lientiate conehierably in their &mom from earl. not cireemetamtes; and there are several others (pardaderly those behoging to the Colonies) of width the income has nowt his etas* returned. Referring. therefore, to the stoomeote already before the Hoe in doe 'a bird Report on P u bli c inure, and hi th e w Riposte' upon Vonore Offices, sot ti e Z also Into account th e regulation,or abolition of some Oilers since that period, pew Oommittee 'see no reason to doubt that lbw annual kinerne now *rival tram the Oakes which are thus brought under the observaties of the House, as being at the dis posal of the Crown and et to be abolished or regul ated, may be estimated et from IMMO,. ‘lllO,OOO. anotif.ftnotta APYLICASLIsTO oFFIcES, THI DUTIES Of MUCH AU NECESSARY TO BS CONTINUED. The hiqulries new made have fully confirmed the observation contained to the But Report of the Committee upon Sinecure Of fices appointed 10 1110: "That the number of offices which have MOM without IMF empleymeet either of principal or deputy, Is nay leoessiderable, and that -by tar t h e greatest number of Al aue described as Sinecure, fall properly sal r the dotarir rr v e L icam minuted by &pay, or offices hikef mem e to employment. - The only similes, in rnd, et any amide:able mole • mann which con be eartidnQ - perhet daemon, are the two alma of Chief loft to lyre 'fordo and South of Treat; upon sib* your Cammainee have °sty to state, that there will be no dlikuiry wendsitieg any formal duties belonging co Ante dims Wary such WI remote) to the Conontissionen of Woods andlard &avows ; and that by this arrangement the present sehrlis may be wholly saved whenever them offices shall become MOW: Thar saris% se well me goat of the Lord Warden of the =rase Wog Paid ant of the Se4lisk Own List, mad the niand . alkas in Scedmelaid Imbed being in like did abe is t . •tr lies=r e Line, el those eoeeauwaed that rignesne.of rel mee should be heirk e zrying le the Consolidated Isqd these and dialler ea as they sew edge, after the tar tulanienthe interests in any alas charged upon ht these li eldlandAlaus Is opt site of high rank and emolument, ties of Lord Justice Ontoral„ which appears to come under the sense destripdon at hem, ootaispieyeaset either of principal or depwitiond to the mtary of which the tome principle of sodom ites wield apply. le of alls idlll4ll - law PIPS Prislint the Court of Session. I One or two ether tam enamerated Pt the etlsothle, bat Weft.. riot rank and emolument, have not, as far se your Commie(' hive been enabled to ascertain, any duties or responsibility an nexed to them; they therefore should be abolished al o her, as woo as they may become vacant. With respect to all the remaining dikes included in the Sche. duk of the Bill of IRIS, being those wt, ch are not altuolier without employment, but which have either entoiuments greatly disproportionate to such employment, or are wholly eaecited 1, 7 deputy, your Committee do not tett th. masks com, cited to .e. commend any general regulation by which the prop •t• side of sa- I lary in any of them may br settled, as soon as the proptoir.i re. elections can be accomplished.— they do not possess all tee i . formation necessary for this purpo.e; and even It they did, it is pastible that an establishment which might be now adequate for tlsy particular office, might cease to be so before the termination of the existing interest. Your Committee are therefore of opinion that it should be left to the judgment and responsibility of the Lords of the Treasury for the time being, atevacancies occur, to place the several offic e s proposed to be regulated upon such au establishment with respect to the number and rank of the persons requalie for the disc h arge of the 'Meant sanctions of such ~Meet, and the amount of ea. key to be assigned to each person, as may appear to t!,em ade. ovate, after a full inquiry into the nature . nd extent of the du. tin to be performed, and the degree of official and pecuniary re. spmeibility which necessarily attatthes to some of them. If i: 'Meld be thought proper in any Act to be passed with relevance to the subject of this Report, to enact, that whenever any oldie said offices shall be reduced and regulated, there shall be said be della both Houses et Parliament a comparative state menu or the nieleber, duty, and emolument of the respective °threes under the 'Waged new establohmen•i, your Committee cu, c the t h at the parliamettary check, created by this arrangement, would be Sufficient to prevent any abuse of a power which s-ems properly .belong to the Lords of the Ire isury„ at .be official and respon air advisers of the Crown, mien all matters which relate to the soperintendacce and controol over the eubiic expenditure. It may not be improper, in ireatieg this part of the inquiry, ei mill the attention of the House snore distinctly to some /stead dreumvances before alluded to, which are connected Stith unites of great emolument in the Courts of Law in lieland. appears, that upon a vacancy wb ch recently occurred in the office of Clerk sif the 'leas in the Court of eixelsequer by the death of the Earl or Buckinghamshire, a claim to the appoint ment to chat office'was prelet red by the Chid Baron of the Ex 'Chequer in Ireland, and an was appointed it) him, and was sworn in before the Court of Exchequer. .t proceeding by w warrant* was instituted on the part of the LI 0•• II and the judgment el the . Court of King's Beach was adverse tit the claim of the Chita Baron. Au appeal, however, Ps* been state .0 the Court of Error; and may hereafter be made by rimer periy, to the House of Lords, in the mean time, by an Act t,I the Le; glslature, 56th Geo. 11l c. I ein the entoluturtits of Ott ~(ice :re paid into the treasusy, and the due discharge tat all t official duties provided for. It Is not impussible ton Haim% . :near to those which have been preterred in this instanc, by the Chid BeCOO, may be preferred to the appointment to other (Akio is the Law Courts to Ireland, of greet and disoroponionate ment, whicb have hitherto beets come:Lard as at the the Crown. Your Committee cannot, however, avoid submitting to the House, whether it would nut be I ertecily comietent, butt, woo justice and sound policy, to provide for the regulation of all sues offices atter the expiration of the leg.lly vested interests, epos the principle on which it is proposed to regulate other unites partaking of the nature of Sinecteres. The duties attached to many of the principal Offices in the Courts of Law In Ireland, appear indeed to be so various and Important, and to be nnewasely performed by so many prisons, that it would* be extremely difficult, without the most mature coosideration, and probably without Inquiries, Moine id on the spot. to suggest any arrangement for the future conduct ei lice business ot,these offices, when the exisoug interests in them shill have terminated. Yoor Committee Understood. however, that there is at prescot a Colindesiso in Irelandoppointed in consequence of an A.:dnes if the Hesse. to Itiledes Imo the state of the t ours ot fait us that part of the United Kingdom. It would be very desirable that the Members of this Commission shoold be required by the 11Leaseutive Government, to examine, with as little &hie at Fot o**, info tee tirconestances under which the several 0111 w, 'a the Coors of Law, which have hitherto been considered in the 'Opted if the.eown, wand, with respect to the performance of tin duties atfachit so them; aid that they shouid ,also be rt. Spiked td suggest such a plan for the future regulation of thin offices, as Shall provide for the respective duties being di•chargel in per.on, at such Werke as shall be deemed a just and reatec. able m eansiden to the individualsdiseheiling theft. Act opts die Legislature will be necessary to give effect 'o say plan whisk Mit be suggested by the Commissioners ; it toil thifeforie be ammetest in Parliament to adopt generally the seines= made by the Comnsiteionen, or to depart from hen according to their diseredop. ledge supposable Anent of a vacancy occurring In any el these offices before the Commissioners made their Report, it is of Coarse understood that it temporary arrangement will be made for the performance of all the necessary duties which shall net R au way interfere with the Immediate regulation of die office', an the principles above recommended. Woos or laWeltelNG 1.1011 AND IPPICItICT POLITICAL aavccaa. Your Committee would have found themselves under cond. derible difficulty in submitting to the House any spenEe plait for enabling the Crown to reward high and efficient political ter• vitas, if they bad set taken for their guidance the principles and regulations established by the Bill, so one% referred so, as the bads of the suggestions which they have to offer under this head. Atter an &Standee consideration of the mode proposed in that Bill for enabling the Crown to recompense the faithful and mte citations discharge of high and efficient civil office, your Co n mhtee cannot, but entertain an opinion that consistently, as they trust, whir this important object, it will be practicable to mde the now means of reward which it is proposed to grant to the Crown less extensive, and, at the same time, to place the power of conferring tbose rewards under limitations more restrictive than bad been provided by dm regulations of that Bill. Retaining the list and classificadon of offices according to Mg BM, your Committee are Of opinion that it would be expediert either to limit the total sum, which should is no case be exceolot or to proceed. in another mode, towards attaining the sante object. Ist, By limiting the number of Pensions which could be gran:- ed, - and in operation at any one time In each Class. toffy, By providing that the power of granting such pensions should to called progressively into operation at stated interval, affordic; s reasonable probability that at least an equal saving will have hero effected by the falling in of the salaries Or emoluments of sours if the Offices to be regulated or abolished, instead of ctunmenciq at once up;tn the vacancy of the first of such Offices at might ex ceed ced,ooo &lease or at any one given period. Sdly, 'that the prothlon of the Bill which would' have made it lawful for hie Majesty, when any person should have served in more than ore of the four Classes. to grant such Pension as is annexed to "C highest Class In which he may have been employ-I, ("tithe's any reference to the duration of his service In that Ciao), :bold he so far amended as to require from any such person a cerrh period of service in the higher Class. With referfnce to these principles of modification, your Corn calcite submit, that the number of Pensions ice each of the Oa Claws should be Limited as follows: Ist Classo-First.Lord of the Treasury, First I.srd of the Ad• mkahy. Three Secretaries cf State, Chancellor of the Exdo• quer--ain Pensions of 43,000. 24 Class—Chief Secietary for Ireland, Secretary at. T./3r— three Pensions of 45,000. N.B. The Chancellor of the Exchequer for Ireland was Ir• elided in this Class in the Bill of 1513. .341 Class—Two Secretaries of the Treasury, Principal go ie. issy of the Admiralty —six Pensions of £l5OO. 4th Class—Under -Secretaries of State, Clerk of :he Cr !r:-.ct —six Pensions of £lOOO. That the Crown should have the power of granting cre c • dos in each of these classes, except the second, at the end c. • •? years from the adoption of this system by the Legi,%t: so In succession at intervals of two years, until the exrirat,..., of twelve years, when it shall be lawful to the Crown ei gratt whtile number of pensions proposed in each class. With re•Fect to the second class, it is proposed that the power should no: CCM' Menet dll the expiration of four years, so as to come into c.-a• plate operation at the same period of twelve years, as la the t'odt other.claases. Your Conituittee cooceive that the uffices of the Pre.tient ct the Board of Controul, and Secretary to that Boar!, conic ".•`' 3 the description of effective civil And political so far -s With* thtni to be considered in any geuvrat sy.tent in etulrd to be laid down with regard to such offices • but they learc u ;o wisdom. of the Hooke to detenuino whether, as their valaissi,y andra l T drawn tram angriest quans, and not front tit- t•-•'• i or !Ire. amirce lily an- h.r„ At e Sche. 310 thee greatly stet! by t . e . • .• Sim , 11,1 re. VIII. d, it is ate f o r wawa be left ea•ury offices reapete charge • of ba. n adz. le du. any to. 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