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denary, furntiere, ke. It would he difficult to eit-
iabit as abstrae of these sums ; an.!, as the explana-
tion, :Oven by the Biltraci Office slie:r (he nature
of ()WM, we must refs to the examination of the
accountant on this sub:tea for the particulars.
One of the items of the general a...count it for
'Lodging money to officers, amounting in the list
t. year to tweinty-five thousand pounds It is stated
to us, that there is no written document dteeting
the Barrack Office to pay this allowance, and the
present Barrack Islasta General is very anxious to
he relieved from making these payments. He ob-
serves, that parr of this expence is for the lueging
of Volunteer Officers on perminent duty. We
think with him, that this part of the payment shorild
he separated from that paid to regulars and militia,
And charged to the account of the Volunteer expen-
diture ; the remainder of these payments, consider-
ing the nature of the service foe which they are
' made, cannot, we think, so properly appear in
the accounts of any other office as in those un-
der the dice Lion of the Barrack Master General.
We shall row describe the duties of the several
officers in the department, in which division of our
Report, to avoid prolixity, we mean to confine our-
selves to a general outline of the duty of the prin-
cipal officers,referring for a mere particular detail,
to the different statements and examinations, which
will be found in the Appendix.

• BARRACK MASTIR OESIEItA. •
The duties of the Barrack Master General re-
main nearly the same as those described in the Re-
port of the Selea Committee on Finance, in 1797,
with the exception of providing stores ar.d supphes,
which are now purchased by the Commissary Ge-
neral ; but the sphere of his duties has been en-
larged since that period, in proportion to the in-
crease of barracks ; and he may now he considered
as the head of a very important and expensive
branch of the public service. The powers and au-
thotity, however, of the present Barrack Master
General, differ so far from those of 1116 predecessor,
that whereas a wide range of discretionary power
appears to have been exercised by the late Barrack
Master General, the present Barrack Master Ge-
neral aOs wholly and-tr the direetion of the Trea-
sury, without whose sanaion he can neither vary
the establishment of the office, undertake new works,
nor even repairs, nor do any other all where the
estimate exceeds five hundred pounds ; which es-
timates are now made upon oath by the officer to
whom the same are referred.
His salary, as Barrack Master General, is 81. pee
diem, or fi.,9201. per annum, which is equivalent to
what his predecessor received under various deno-
minations of regular, extra, and staff pay. The
salary is paid quarterly, besides which he is repaid
his travelling disbursements, and occpuies a house,
the furnishing of which, together with the rent and
taxes, is paid by the public.
The present Barrack Master General has no other
employment nor emolument under Government,
except his commission as Colonel of the Gist Regi-
meat of Infantry; and forage for the effective
horses, which the General states he is oLligi:d to
krill for the discharge of his public ditties, :wawa-
mg to the regulations for officers of his rank
longing to the Icing's staff.
(To be ellllti.lue3 )