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London, England, 1810-08-09 00:00:00

OFFICES EXECUTED RY DEPUTY.

Receipt. I Pd. Deputy.
The Clerk of the King's Silver L.3;11 a 4 L ra6 tit to
The Clerk of the Junta, nu an
average of two tears - - 296 10 7
The Clerk of the Essoigns -14 u o
'the Clerk the Warrants,
Enrolments and L'Oreal' - 643 16 0
The Clerk of the Juries - 79 13 11
The Clerk of the Error' in the
Exchequer Chamber - - 2033 16 7
The Fdscer fur Soo rey, Sugr*
and Kent, Hants and WiUs - 471 • 0
Ditto, tor Norfolk and Norwich,
Stafford, Northampton, Sa-
lop, Reiland, am, 319ntonnih,
Lancaster, Chester, & Dur-
ham
Ditto, fur Derby, Leicester,
Notts, and Warwick - -
Ditto, tor Cambridge and Hunt-
iugdou, Suffolk, nod Li:IL Ulll
Ditto, for ESSIX and Nye ta

12 13 0
7o I) II

22t 11 3
14 14 u

I,s 0 0

41 4 •

s 6 s o

11 11 0

30 • 0 0
31 S 0
42 111 0

6 o n

6 s o
11 IQ II

L 4,4uti to 3

L.73g o 1

OFFICFS EXECUTED IN PEIVI4ON.

L 4.406 JO S

Three Pruthonotaries' neb 1,6271 LA. 4d. its-
chiding each deducted in their return
fur Premiums un Life Insurance - 4,993 0
The Register and Ckrk of the Supersedes, - 7 $ •
The Filseer for Loudon and Middlesex, Red -
turd, lier4s, Bucks, Oxford, Cornwall. Glou-
rester, Hereford end Wiireester, melodies
4-.:91. 9s. deducted in Ins rehire fur Premium

on luburaoce, and lutcreut of Purchase
'.ll our v - 1,999 t 0
Ditto, fur Sosueructskire, Bristol, Dorset, laud
Poole - - 3114 II
Ditto fur !)corn land Exeter, Conherlsod,
11'estniurelsiol, ?iurilisuilierlaud, suit New-
eastk-opun-Ty r.e, Yorkshire, City of York,

.
end kitopl.m. upon-Hull . -
Thrre Second.. ws including 1201. ends de-
ducted in it,kr It:Amur n fur Inherent uf Pur-
dne Monry mad Pretuttaurs of Ifultursuct -1,41 n • n

64 1n 6

L 12,102 ♦ 2

And it further appears to Your Majesty's Coin-
tni.sumers, that the present charge upon the Pub-
lic Revenue, far the inyment of the salaries of the
Lord Chief Justice, and the other Judges of the
Court of Common may be consislcrably les-
sened (such regard b• ing bet 144 aforesaid) if the
number of Prothonotaries and Secondaries were re-
duced to two Prothonotaries and two Secondaries,
who would be fully sufficient to transact the bush-
;less of that Court, now performed by three Pro-
thonotaries and three Sectoidarirs, inasmuch as the
business of similar offic.s in the Court of King's
Bench, the business of which Court is ranch wester
than that of the Court of Common Pleas, is trail*.
scted by four officers; and if the number of Pro-
ihnnotaries and Secondaries should be so redueed,
as no consideration will be paid for these offers
after the sale of them shall be abolished, the two

and two Secondaries would, as is ap-
prehended, be sufficiently remunerated for their lid-
ditioual trouble if they should respectively retain
not more than two-thirds of the fees of all those
dices, and be accountable for the remainder.

And it further appear: to your said Commis-
simiets. that the offices of Filacers for the several
*unlit it'll may be wet; executed by one person; and
tl)st he would be anniciently remunerated for exe-
eutii.g the same, by rttaining a proportion of the
fees of there u& es, not exceeding one-half of them ;
and that lie should Ire accountable for the remainder.

Atd it blether appears to 'our said Commis-
sioners, that the several °flees of Clerk or the Es-
taigns. Clerk of the King'sbet, Clerk of the
Warrants lorolinents and Estreats. Clerk of the
Juries, Clerk of the Jursta(whose office corre-
sponds with that of Clerk of Ni•i Pietas in the King's
Betech), and the Clerk of the Errors in the &Eche-
era Ch .mher, should be exeruteel by the MAWS
themselves, of ahtch more than one may he erre-
...Died by one person ; awl that they should only re-
ceive a certain proportion of the fees of those offices,
and be accountable for the residue.

According to the information yonr Majesty's
C.,inTniseioncri hare receiveil from the examination
uf the different Cerro era of the Court of Common
Pleas above mentioned, including iniixiptd* and

deputies, the whole amount of the fees annually re-
ceived, On an avet.lge ul three years, ending at the
period when the accounts were last made up, was,
12,10.21. 44.. 2d.
From %titbit, by deduct* ng the fees received
by aye Prothonotary, being - L. 1,111.17 13 4
By one Secondary, beicg -47 n 0 u
Half the fees received by all the Filacers 913 7 ei
The fees received by the flesh of the King's
Silver, after payment of his Deputy - 311 16 0
By the Clerk of the J nraty after a like pay-
ment - 193 IS 7 .

By the Clerk of the Essoigne, after a Uke pay-
ment -

Ely the fink of the Icarraotp, Ir:raiment',
Eatreats, after a like payment -
By the Clerk of the .lurtea, after a like pay-
eueut

70 0 0

461 if; 9
_ Go 1 II

By the Clerk of the Elmre in the Exchttper
Chamber, alto' a like payment -2,20 a 16 7

The amount of the 41educt ions sill snake
a vain of - - L 6327 to it}

By means of which deductions, after allos.ing
such aunts as may be proper to be added tea what
the deputies now receive, in order that a proper re;
tnuneration may be made to the principals wd,a
shall execute the functions of there- offices after
the sale of them shall he abolished, wi:l re- '
main probably a cum of not less than between
5,0001. and 6.0001. per annum, •pplic..ble to the
payment of the salaries of the Lord Chief Jostler
and the other Judges of the Court of CUMLOOII
Ptese ; subject; however, to increase or eludnution,
as the business of the Court may vary.
It further appears to your Majeety's Commis-
sioners, that the remuneration to be wade to the
Officers, both of the Court of King's Bench and
Common Pleas, who shall be accountable fcr any
part of their Fees, should not be • tited roipulsted
sum, bat a certain proportion of the gross attionno
of the fees they shall receive (after deducting such
stuns es are payable thereout to the Judge* and
other Officers of the said Comm', and the Sininp
duties), in order to insure • proper attention In
the discharge of their duties arid the receipt Of the
fees, out of which proportion there should be dis-
charged and paid the salaries of clerks, and other
necessary expenses of the said respective offices.
A. in putting the examples of the proportions of
the fees which certain Officers aright he allowed to
retain, the calculation has proceeded on a consi-
deration of the net amount of the fees received by
theirs, according to which only it was possible to
form an opinion what sums of money might pro-
bably be applied to lessen the charge on the public
revenue, it may be proper to nonce, that the same
proportiuns cannot be observed in determining what
part of the gross amount.of the aid fees orig:it to
be retained by those Officers. intismach as the
amount of the salaries of clerks, oust! other nerves
rwry expenses to be paid by the Officers. When
added to what may be • proper remunerat:on for
their services, would not leave the same propor-
tions of the gross amount of the fees to he retained
sod accounted for as in the examples shave men-
tioned ; and that in determining what 'nay be •
proper remuneration of the persons discharging the
functiona of tholes offices or appointments, care
should be taken that the proportion of feed to he
retained by them, on that account, should not in
airy case be err greet as to enable them, by the as.
sistance of mire's, to discharge those fun' boons,
without being themselves constantly and eiVectivelv
atusticlant on their duties, otherwise their atteed-
atter may become little more than formai, and tire
charge on the Public Revenue will not ne lessened
in the degree in which it may he. At the same
time; it appears to Your Majesty's Commissioners,
that the proportion of fees should be such as to in-
duce men of character, education, and ability (re-
spiect being had to the rank of such se ver.l Officers
in the said Courts, and to the torture of their duties)
to undertake tine discharge of them ; and, with that
view, it may he a matter proper to be considered,
whether it may not be fit to provide, that no person
shall be appointed to succeed on a vacancy, who
shall not bare been for a certain 'number of years; a
practising Barrister, Attorney, Solicitor, ow Officer,
of one of the said Courts, ore Clerk to stuck Officer.
But inasmuch as an increase ier diminution of host-
iles% may hereafter cause such proportion of fees to
exceed or fall short of a proper remuneration to the
sent Officer., it runty be right that power should lie
given to the Chief Justices and Judges of the said
Courts respectively, with the approbation of the
Lord bligh Chancellor, or Keeper of the Great Seal,
for the time being, to increase or diminish Fetch pro-
portion ; and that the appointment or nomination
to all such offices in the said Courts, as are by law
now saleable, and to whirl' the persons, having
right of sale, have hitherto nominated or appointed,
should, after the sale thereof shall be abolished, be
made by the Chief Justices of the said Courts re-
spectively, or the senior puisne Judge thereof, durs
log the vacancy of the arid respective offices of
Chief Justice ; and that all such Officers should be
obliged to keep book., and make be them regular
and true entries of all the lees they may receive, to
be verified on oath before, and examined, signed,
and allowed by, one or merit of the Jod4cs of the
said respective Courts, within a certain time after
the end of every term, and to pay over the balances
to such persons as may be appointed to receive
them.

And it farther appears to your Majesty's Com-
missioners, that some persona who have purchased
their offices in your 'Majesty's said Courts of King's
Bench and Common Pleas, have an done in the ex-
pectation of being afterwards allowed to reign
them in favour of other persons, to lie appoioteil io
their places for pecuniary conside►atiout, soil were
it not on account of such expectation, it it evident
that after the avoidance of their offices by death or
otherwise, by the liaisons who may he interested in
the right of sale, the charge upon the public re-
venue on account of the salaries of the Lord Chief
Justices and the other Judges of the said Courts,
would, upon the extinction, from time to time, of
the lives of the persons who should at the time of
such avoidance be in possession of 'daces purchased
by them, he lessened by the full amount $4 the
several animal sums for which their successors may
respectively he accountable ; but unless the prac-
tice, which furs in some sir fences obtained, of such
Officers resigning, in favour of their successors,
for pecuniary considerations, Ire uholished
some certain time, i: will he impossible in ',secant'
the period at whi.sh the full amount or the 'trend
annual sums, fur which all the said Officers may
be accountable, can be applied to the leseening the