The royal gazette — [Charleston] S.C., 1782-06-08 00:00:00, page 4

PARLIAMENTARY PROCEEDINGS.
To the Honourable the knights. Citizens, and Burgees, in
Parliament.
The SIXTH REPORT of the Commissioners appointed to
examine, take, and ftatc, the PUBLICK ACCOUNTS
of the Kingdom.
[Continued front our lafl.]
AN ancient table regulates the fees taken in the Tally Court,
and estimates them; either by the Tally, or by the sum
paid in; they are received from the persons who take awav the
tallies, and are divided for the most part into four equal portions.
One of which belongs to the Auditor and his Clerk, another
to the Clerk of the Pells and his Clerk, a third to the two De
puty Chamberlains on the receipt fide, and the fourth to the
Tally Cutter..
The two Deputies on the Court fide, have each an ancient
salary of five pounds a year, inserted in the firft lift of the Ex
chequer Certificate; and are entitled, in equal moleties, to
fees paid by accounts for joining tallies, according to an ancient
table, and estimated either by the Tally, or the sum to be ac
counted for; the moiety of these fees was two hundred sixty
one pounds and seven-pence, and of the Treasury allowance
for the tallies of loan, eighty-fix pounds eighteen (hillings and
rise-pence; together, to each Deputy, three hundred fifty-
Lwo pounds nineteen /hillings and four-pence : out of this sum,
the Deputy to the senior Chamberlain paid fixtecn pounds two
Shillings and fix-pence for taxes, and three pounds for inciden
tal expences ; which reduced the clear receipt to three hundred
thirty-three pounds sixteen (hillings and ten-pence; of this
sum he retained sixty- five pounds as his salary for the execution
of the office, and twelve pounds ten frillings for the under
Clerk ; the pefidue, being two hundred fifty-fix pounds fix (hil
lings and ten-pence, be paid to his principal. The like ihare
of the Deputy to the Jimioi, was reduced, by the like pay
ment for taxes, and twelve pounds ten (hillings to the Clerk,
to three hundred twenty-four pounds fix (hillings and ten
pence; out of which, retaining his salary of fifty- pounds, he
{>aid the remaining two hundred seventy four pounds fix fbil
ings and ten-pence to his principal. The under clerk has only
a salary of twenty-five pounds a year, paid to him out of the
fees ofthe Deputies.
The Tally Cutter is appointed by a constitution from the
Commissioners of the Treasury, during pleafurc ; he executes
mo part of the business of this office himfelf ; his Deputy trans
ads the whole of it: he has a salary of five pounds ten (hillings
a year, inserted in the firft lift of the Exchequer Certificate,
and received an allowance from the Treasury for the lean tallies
of one hundred forty-one pounds fix (hillings and fix-pence ;
which two sums are paid out of the Civil Lift; his fourth of
the Tally Court fees amounted tothree hundred sixty-six pounds
seven (hillings and ten-pence. These sums making together
five hundred thirteen pounds four (hillings and four-pence,
were reduced, by fourteen pounds twelve (hillings and nine
pence paid for taxes, and fifty-feven pounds one (hilling and
three-pence allowed to his Deputy, t( four hundred forty-one
pounds ten (hillings and four-pence clear receipt. The Depu
ty, in addition to his salary, received from the Usher one pound
ten (hillings for grinding tools, and one pound three (hillings
-and fix-pence in gratuities, which made his nett receipt fifty
nine pounds fourteen (hillings and nine-pence.
The gross charge of this office, comprehending all its divi
sions, is two thousand and forty-three pounds four (hillings
and fix-pence ; to which the publicly contributed seven pounds
seven (hillings; the Civil Lift, seven hundred fifty-eight pounds
ten (hillings and two-pence; and individuals, one thousand
two hundred seventy-seven pounds seven (hillings and four
pence : the nett receipt was one thousand nine hundred and
seventeen pounds fix (hillings and nine-pence.
But to the expence created by this office, must be added those
portions ofthe Tally Court fees, and the Treasury Allowances
for the tallies of loans, paid to the Auditor and the Clerk ofthe
Pells, amounting together to one thousand and twenty pounds
five (hillings, included in the accounts of the profits of those
offices; which, added to the gross sum of two thousand and
forty-three pounds four drillings and fix-pence, increases the
total expence of the Chamberlain's office to three thousand and
tixty-four poundshine drillings and fix-pence.
The return ofthe Honourable Horace Walpole, Ufherof the
Exchequer, and the examination of Charles Bedford, Esquire,
his Deputy, fdpplied us with the state of the emoluments of
this office ; in which three persons are concerned, the Usher,
the Deputy, and the Clerk, who is also Yeoman Usher.
The Usher is appointed for life by letters patent, with power
to exercise this office by deputy ; which power it has been nfual
for the Ulher to make use of; and consequently the business of
this office is tranfaded entirely by the Deputy. The Usher re
ceives fevcral small half-yearly fees or payments, on different
accounts, enumerated in the return, and amounting in the
year to forty pounds feveriteen (hillings and eight-pence ; but
his principal advantage is the profit he makes, by fupplyirg the
Treasury and Exchequer with stationary and turnery ware,
and several other articles, and the Exchequer with coals, and
by employing the workmen who do the repairs of the Ex
chequer and the inside of the Treasury. There is an ancient
table kept in the offices of the Auditor and the Usher, which
contains a long catalogue of the articles furnifhed by the Usher,
and a certain price affixed to each article the Usher is allowed
arid charges Government, for each article he furnifhes, at the
rate stated in this table: but this table does not contain all
the items he provides; for such as are not included in it, he is
allowed a profit of forty per-cent, and on the workmen's bills
for repairs he has a profit ofthrec (hillings and fix-pence in the
pound. The total of these gains was five thousand two hun
dred fifty-two pounds eight (Trillings and four pence farthing;
and, with his fees, made his gross receipt five thousand two
hundred ninety-three pounds fix drillings and a farthing; his
deductions were for taxes, four hundred seventy-six pounds
and five-pence farthing; to his Deputy, a salary of one hun
dred forty-four pounds, and one third of the poundage on the
bills for repairs, two hundred thirty-four pounds four (hillings
and fix-pence; to the Clerk, a salary, of fifty pounds, and to
him, as Yeoman Usher, thirty-fix pounds eight (hillings and
three-pence; in fees, forty-fix pounds eighteen drillings; and
for incidental expences, one hundred and five pounds fourteen
Shillings and ten-pence. The amount of these deductions is
one thousand and ninety-three pounds fix (hillings and a far
thing; and reduced his nett receipt to four thousand two hun
dred pounds.
The Deputy received, in fees from the stationers and others,
one hundred forty-five pounds five shillings and eleven-pence ;
which, added to his salary, and poundage on the workmen's
bills, made five hundred twenty-thi ee pounds ten Killings and
five-pence $ from which, four pounds being deduced for taxes,
his nett receipt was five hundred nineteen pounds ten drillings
and five-pence. The Clerk received in gratuities seventy-six
pounds one (hilling ; which with his salary from the Usher,
made one hundred twenty-fix pounds one drilling. As Yecman
Usher, he received in gratuities twenty-three pounds two dril
lings and fix-pence ; which, with the payment from the Usher,
produced fifty-nine pounds ten shillings and nine-pence; toge
ther, one hundred eighty-five pounds clever, drillings and nine
pence ; from which there was no deduction. Hence the gross ex
pence of this office was five thousand five hundred thirty-seven
pounds fift^u shillings and five-pence farthing; the nett, four
thousand nine hundred and five pounds two (hillings and two
pence: the publick contributed one thousand and seven pounds
fix drillings and eight-pence farthing; the Civil Lift, four
thousand two hundred eighty'five pounds nineteen drillings
and four-pence ; and individuals, two hundred forty-four
pounds nine shillings and five-pence.
By the return transmitted to us from the office of the Pay
matters of Exchequer bills, and from the examination of Na
thaniel Barwell, Esq; one of the Paymasters, we obtained the
information following:,
This office is executed by three Paymasters, 'a Comptroller,
an Accountant, a Cashier, and two Clerks; to which are
added, a houfakceper and messenger, and, occasional atriftant
clerks. The Paymasters and Comptroller, and the house
keeper, are appointed by the Commissioners of the Treasury,
by constitution, during pleasure; the rest of the officers are
appointed by the Paymasters themselves, This office is distin
guished from the rest, in that the Officers, as well as the
Clerks, are paid by Salaries only. No fee or gratuity what
ever is taken by any of them, except a small annual fee of two
pounds seven Shillings, allowed the Accountant for making up
his year's 'account.' Each Paymatter has an annual salary of
two hundred eighty-three pounds fix drillings and eight-pence,
which has not varied Since the year 1736: he pays tor himfelf
and Clerks thirty-four pounds three (hillings and four-pence
for taxes; which reduced it totwo hundred forty-nine pounds
three fhiliings and four-pence. The Comptroller's salary is
three hundred and fifty pounds a year ; reduced, by the pay
ment of forty-one pounds ten (hillings for taxes, to three hun
dred and eight pounds ten drillings. The salaries of the rest
are paid clear of deductions, as stated in the return ; all of
them together amount to one thoufmd fix hundred and twenty
pounds; which is paid out of public funds.
trom the account of the contingent expences of this office,
they were one hundred and sixty-nine pounds Seventeen Shil
lings and Seven pence, paid also by the public: so that the
gross experice of this office to the pub'ick, was one thousand
seven hundred ninety-two pounds four. Shillings and (even
pence ; the nett pr duce to the officers was one thousand four
hundred seventy-eight pounds seven (hillings.
That the total amount of the expences attending the receiv
ing and iffung of the publick money at the receipt of his Ma
jesty's Exchequer may appear at one view, we have subjoined
'in the appendix an account of the totals of the gross and nett
receipt by the officers and clerks in each of these branches of
the Exchequer, with the deductions paid thereout during the
year 178 c: from whence it appears, that the gross sum recei
ved by all of them in salaries, fees, and gratuities, was eighty
two thousand five hundred and nineteen pounds Sixteen fhil,
lings and fix-pence three farthings; and the nett sum Seventy
five thousand eight hundred Sixty-three pounds nineteen foil
lings and three-pence farthing: that fifty-one thousand seven
hundred fifty-one pounds eighteen drillings and five-pence far
thing was paid by the publick; eight thousand and eight pounds
and five-pence half-penny, cut of the Civil Lift ; twenty two
thousand nine hundred twenty-nine pounds fifteen fhiliings
and three-pence, by individuals ; and three thousand eight
hundred sixty seven pounds twelve Shillings and five pence far
thing for taxes.
Such is the Rate of the salaries, fees, and gratuities; and
such the authority under which they are paid and received in
these offices : but the act enjoins us aftill farther duty ; it com
mands us " to report such regulations, as, in our judgment,
(hall appear expedient to be established, in order that the du
ties, taxes, and monies, granted, received, and appropriated
for the publick service of this kingdom, may hereafter be re
ceived and issued in the manner the most beneficial and advan
tageous to the publick."/
Regulations to this end have, in the progress of this inquiry,
offered tbemfelves td our judgment; regulations tending to
introduce that system of Arid ceconomy in the Administration
of the publick revenue, which the Legislature has by the aft
determined to be neceffiry. By ftrift ceconomy, we appre
hend, is not meant such as either derogates from the honour
and dignity of the Crown, or abridges the servant of the pub
lick of the due reward of his industry and abilities; we mean
an economy that fleers between extreme paifimony oil the
one hand, and profufion on the other; that is confident with
justice, as well as prudence ; that gives to all their full due,
and to none more; that supports every ufeful and necessary
establishment, but cuts off and reduces every fuperfluous and
redundant expence. Some regulations, built upon the princi
ple of ceconoiny thus defined, have for their objects the offices,
the officers ana their emoluments.
An office of the higneft antiquity, that has subsisted for ages
under its present form ; that has the receipt and custody ofthe
publick treasure; upon the due administration of which de
pends the national credit and fafety of the realm; an office of
such a description is entitled to the utmost refpeCt, and altera
tions in its cllablifhment should be well weighed, and propo
sed with caution and diffidence: but as a change in the man
ners, customs, and, above all, in the finances of this nation,
Since the origin of this office; together with peculiar circum
dances of the times, may render regulations neccffary, we
have judged it a part of our duty to examine ' into the receipt
of the Exchequer, with a view to an economical reform.
The office of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, however
important in ancient times, is, at this day, occupied princi
pally in the business of the tally,; which is the official acquit
tance to persons paying money into the Exchequer ; this
acquittance has various formalities, all calculated to prevent
the possibility of a forgery, by which the accountant might,
on passing his accounts, be difeharged of a sum he never paid.
The Teller is obliged, as soon as he receives money, to
transmit the bill by which he charges himfelf with that receipt,
through the pipe into the Tally Court; where the following
officers attend: ift, the Tally Writer; who is the officer of
the Auditor, and takes an account of the sum, andwrites it on
both sides ofthe Tally delivered to him, with the sum cut upon
it in notches by the Tally Cutter.
adly, The Clerk of the Introitus; who is the officer of the
Pells, and records the receipt ; and jdly, the two Deputy
Chamberlains bn thC receipt fide; who split the tally, examine
and compare the two parts with each other, and with the entry
made by the Clerk of the Introitus. The tally is deliver
ed to the Accountant; the foil is delivered to, and kept by,
the Deputy Chamberlains on the Court fide, until the Accoun
tant, being about to pal's his accounts, brings to them the ac
count of his payments into the Exchequer, with the tallies :
these Chamberlains examine the account, join the tallies with
the foils, mark both, certify upon the account that the tallies
are received and joined, deliver back his account to the Ac
countant, keep the foil in the office, and fend the tally to the
Clerk ofthe Pipe. In this operation nine persons are concerned.
It is undoubtedly true, that the publick revenue cannot be
too fafely guarded against fraud of every kind; but if a mode
of receipt can be substituted, similar to what is praCtifed in
other offices, equally secure, and at but little expence ; such
a mode demands attention.
If, instead of the Tally Court, the Clerks of the Auditor,
and of the Pells, were to attend the office of the Tellers, as
the Bank Clerk does now, and take an account of the sums, as
they are received ; if an indented check receipt of each sum
was made put, compared with the entries, and marked with
an intratur by the one officer, and a recordatur by the other;
if this receipt was produced with the account, before it is passed
gudfxamined with the counterfoil} cad the account compared
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FRANCIS MENARD, of the province aforefaid, who is in
custody of the fheriff of the Board of Police, at the suits of
Hester Stent, Executrix of William Stent, and join Badt, having peti
tioned the Intendants of the Board cf Police that he may be admitted
to the benefit of the ad made for the relief of insolvent debtors: It
is ordered, That the fail Hefer Stent, Executrix of William Stent, and
fobn Badt, and all others to whom the said petitioner is anywise in
debted, be, and they are herebyfummoned and have notice to appear
at the fitting of the said Board, which (hall happen three month
after the date hereof, to shew cause, if any they have, why th,
petitioner should not have the prayer of his petition granted.
Cbarkflown, YQtb March, T7?2. W. SIMPSON. C P.
SOUTH-CAROLIN A.
ALEXANDER BRODIE, of the Province aforefaid, who
is in custody of the Sheriff of the Board of Police, ai the
suit of Henry Martin, having petitioned the Intendants of the fid
Board that he may be admitted to the benefit of the a& made for the
relief of insolvent debtors: It is ordered, That the said Henry Martin,
and all others to whom the said petitioner is any wife indebted, be,
and they are hereby summoned and have notice to appear at the
fitting of the said Board, which fhalfhappen three months fter the
date hereof, to ffiew cause, if any they have, why the petitioner
should not have the prayer of his petition granted.
lath April. ^B2. THO. WIN^TANIEV, C. P.
SOUTH-CAKOLIN A.
LAWRENCE DUGGON, of the province aforefaid, who
is in custody of the Sheriff of the Board of Police, :t s he fit
of Barnard Kane, having petitioned the In e 'dants of the fiid Board
that he may be admitted to the benefit of the a& made for the relief
of insolvent debtors: It is ordered. That the said Bernard K ne,
and all others to whom the said petitioner is any wif i deb-cd. ~
and they are hereby summoned and have no ice to a; par at 2
fitting of the said Board, which shall happen hree months if'er r he
date hereof, to shew cause, if any they have, why the pet^im c<
should not have the prayer of his petition rrarced.
^J^) ^^ mo. WRISTaXIt C.R
with the entries in the office, either of the Auditor, or the
Pells, and the truth of it certified by that officer: a check thus,
fenced, seems to be as effectually secured against forgery as the
tally, is a mode more simple, and can be tranfafted by a single
clerk. Nor is this check unknown in the Exchequer; the bills
that are issued every year, to a great amount, both in number
and value, are guarded by the check indenture and counterfoil.
The other business of this office may, without injury to the
publick, be easily transferred elsewhere: the custody of one
of the keys to the Tellers chests, the number of which ought
not to be diminished, may be committed to the Auditor; and
the custody of the standard weights and measures, and ofthe
standard pieces of gold and silver, causing little trouble, and
that but seldom, to any other office in the Exchequer.
Seeing, therefore, no utility acciuing to the publick from
the office of the Chamberlains, beyond the labour of a single
clerk, but, on the contrary, a considerable charge incurred
annually, in flipporting two Chamberlains, and a Tally Cut
ter, three sinecures, at the expence, in the year 1780, of one
thousand four hundred and twelve pounds two foilings and
ten-pence; and the whole office at the expence of three thou
sand and sixty-sour pounds nine fhiliings and fix-pence, are of
opinion, that publick prudence requhes the suppression of this
office, and the fubflitution of another kind of receipt in the
place of the Tally.
[To bf Continued.]
r l 'HE Creditors of the Estate of Sir John Colleton, Ba-
I ronct, dec<afed, will be pleased to render a state of their
demands, and the debtors to make payment, to
ROBERT JOHNSTON, Administrator.
cth March, 1782. II No. 2., St,Vf-haePsAlley.
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Good BOTTLED PORTER, and a few half Hogfheada
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r |'HE Copartnership of Bentham and Sutcliffe bein^
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Copartnerfhip, are requeued to make immediate payment, or fettle
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Clarb^wn, May If, 1782. JOHN SUTCLIFFE.
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