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TREASURY MINUTE.--CUSTOMS
MANAGEMENT.

My lords have before' them the report of the select com-
mittee which sat in 1851 and 1852, !' to inquire into the con-
stitution and management of the Board of Customs, &c. ;"
which report divides the subjects of the investigation into
the following 14 heads
1. Constitution of the Board of Customs.
2. Appointment and promotion of officers.
3. Fines and satisfactions.
4. Ad valorem duties; •
5. Seizures and stoppages, and adjudication of them.
6. Law of costs and penalties.
7. The transit system.
8. Fines on shipping.
9. Bonding system.
10. Passengers' luggage.
11. Hours of attendance.
12. Simplification of .entries of free goods.
13. Codification.
14. Outports.
My lords have also before them .a report made to their
lordships by the Commissioners of Customs upon the report
of the committee, which was referred to them for that pur-
pose. The Commissioners of Customs treat each of the 14
subjects in the same order as that observed iu the report of
the committee ; and my lords proceed to consider them in
the "same order :

' 1. CONSTITUTION OF THE BOARD OF CUSTOMS.
As the immediate object which my lords have in view in
the present minute is, to furnish such directions as shall en-
able the proper officers to draw a bill which shall consolidate
into one act the existing acts relating to warehousing and to
Customs duties, introducing such improvements ,as appear '
practicable ; my lords defer for a separate minute 'a considera-
tion of the constitution of the board, and confinetheir present
observations thereon In this place to the single point, that
should any vacancies occur in the board in the meantime, it
is the opinion of my lords that such should not be filled up
until the whole subject shall have received their lordships'
consideration and decision.

2. APPOINTMENT AND PROMOTION OF OFFICERS.
The officers here alluded to by the committee appear to
be—

Waterside Department :
Weighers.
Gaugers.
Lockers.
Landing-waiters and searchers.
Water Guard Department :
Boatmen.

Tide-waiters.
As to appointments and promotions of officers, my lords
concur in the principle laid down by the commissioners, that
a marked distinction of classes must be recognised and is
essential to the efficiency of a department in which kinds of
service essentially different are combined under one superin-
dence and control. Neither seniority nor respectability can
constitute any title to promotion from a class requiring one
of these kinds of service to a class requiring another, and the
admission of any such title, which might readily grow up
under the notion of indulgence and liberality, would be most
detrimental to the public service. But my lords approve of
carrying -universally into effect the principle of promotion
according to real fitness and merit, irrespective not only of
interest from without, but even of distinctions of class in the
service itself. These distinctions raise a general presumption
against promotion from the rank of weigher, through the rank
of locker, to that of landing-waiter; but they do not consti-
tute, in the judgment of my lords, a sufficient objection to
such promotion in individual cases where persons shall have
undeniably and conspicuously shown their fitness in all essen-

tial respects for Such promotion.
According to the existing rules, the promotion of weighers
is confined to the office of lockers, but they are not excluded
from the office of gauger, if recommended by the Treasury,
and tide-waiters are at present confined in their promotion to
become tide-surveyors. They cannot become landing-waiters.
This distinction has been instituted in consequence of the very
different character of the duties which are performed by the
two classes of officers, and of the qualifications required at the
original appointment. My lords recognise, in the grounds as
sou for retaining the general distinction which at present
stated 13y the Commissioners of the Customs, a sufficient rea-
exists ; but referring to the fact that a weigher must be
advanced_ nine steps before he becomes a superintending
locker of .the first class, and that a tide-waiter must be
advanced through seven stages before he becomes a first-class
tide-suryeyor, which must not only be a guarantee for con-
siderable personal merit, but also for a long experience, my
lords are of opinion, that hereafter any officer who has filled
the position of locker or of a first-class tide-surveyor for at
least three years, and shall at the time be a superintending
locker, shall be eligible to be recommended as fit for appoint-
ment as landing-waiter, and that every such superintending
examinedafopupnonttom lea
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locker or first-class tide surveyor shall, at any time after
appoint
three years' service in that capacity, be entitled to claim to be
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such officers to be landing-waiters. And, moreover, that the
Commissioners of Customs shall have the privilege of recom-
mending officers of this class, of unusual merit, and who shall
have distinguished themselves specially by their good con-
duct, in the proportion of one in every five vacancies which
shall occur in the landing-waiters' department, and that the
same shall be so appointed as a special reward for meritorious
conduct.

furnish the owner, when he is known, or his ag cut, with a
written notice, specifying the grounds of detentio h."
Second, the owner of goods seized has the of ?Um to have
his case adjudicated upon by the commissioners z, on petition,
or, in the event of that not being satisfactory, by an exami-
nation conducted on oath before one of the commissioners
who will sit for that purpose, in pursuance of the following
notification, issued on the 23d of August, 185 2:—
" Aug :Ust, 23, 1852.

" The Commissioners of her Majesty's Cusikm; hereby give
notice, that they will be prepared, in any c ase of seizure in
London, under the Customs law, upon appli ration being made
to them in writing, and where the owner' the goods, 4e.,
may be desirous of such a course, to appoin t one of the mem-
bers of the board to take the evidence o:2 oath of the mer-
chants or other parties claiming the properl a on the one, side,
and of the detaining officers on the other, supported by that
of any witnesses that may be necessary for the proper inves-
tigation of the case, and to report the st tine for the board's
decision, agreeably to the practice observed in cases of com-
plaints, by merchants and others, against. officers."
But as it iff apparent to my lords that 'alio means of adjudi-
cation is applicable only to London, ray lords are pleased-to
direct that, in the outports, persons whose goods are seized
may require to have the case investigated"; on oath before the
collector or other principal officer of tla. port in the same
manner as before a commissioner. in Loud om.

Thirdly, Greater facilities have been gr:3..-nted for amending
entries in certain cases, -Without the loss: of time caused by
applying to the commissioners. And my lords are of opinion
that, with these modifications, the prese zt practice, as des-
cribed by the commissioners, and the application of the same
principles to the outports herein provkie d for' requires 'no
further alteration. But my lords hope that the experiment
made by the commissions, of. entrusting their officers with the
power of permitting amendments and c Orrections of errors,
.may prove by the result that that dismetion may safely be
further extended.