An Act for appointing and enabling commissioners to examine, take, and state the publick accounts of the kingdom; and to report what balances are in the hands of accountants, which may be applied to the publick service; and what defects there are in the present mode of receiving, collecting, issuing, and accounting for publick money; and in what more expeditious and effectual, and less expensive manner, the said services can in future be regulated and carried on for the benefit of the publick.
Great Britain.
[London : printed by Charles Eyre and William Strahan,
1780]
At head of drop-head title: 'Anno vicesimo Georgii III. Regis. Cap. LIV.'.
Imprint from chapter 1 general titlepage.
Issued separately with a general titlepage, and also as part of: 'Anno Regni Georgii III. Regis Magnæ Britanniæ, Franciæ, & Hiberniæ, vicesimo. At the Parliament begun and holden at Westminster, the twenty-ninth day of November, anno Domini 1774, .. And from thence continued, by several prorogations, to the twenty-fifth day of November, 1779; being the sixth session of the fourteenth Parliament of Great Britain.'.
Last word of first line of text: 'Taxes,'; first word of line below initial: 'is'; last word of last full line of text: 'and'.
Text in black letter.
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