Star.
London, England, 1821-08-25 00:00:00

RETRENCHMENT.

The following is an outline of the Plan now under
consideration, and, we believe, actually determined
upon, for carrying into effect a general system of
economy in the various Civil Departments of the''
State. It has originated in the Treasury Department,
and the different other Civil Establishments have
been called upon, by official circulars, to revise their
respective departments, and new model them accord-
ing to the following principles :
Ist. That all offices shall be restored, as to the
number of persons employed, and their several sala-
ries, to the state in which they were placed in the
year 1797, subject, however, to such variations or
exceptions as the peculiarity of circumstances may

render expedient.
2d. That all offices, after undergoing such revision,
shall be considered as placed upon a perfectly new
establishment, to commence operation on the Sth of

January next.
It is further in contemplation to repeal the 50 Geo.
111. c. 117, which regulates the Superannuation Al-
lowances to retired Civil Officers, and providesfor the
payment thcrcrif out ?like Public Funds, and in lieu of
such to compel all Civil Officers who may hereafteri
become entitled to such allowance to contribute a
fixed rate per tentage upon their respective salaries
and emoluments towards the formation of a Super-
annuation Fund, to be administered under the direc-
Ition of the Lords of the Treasury, and to be esta-
blished and preserved in the following manner :
All public civil officers whose salaries (rifler reduc-
tion or revision upon the foregoing principle) amount
to, or exceed, £lOO per annum, and who may here-
; after become entitled to superannuation allowance,
are required to contribute 5 per cent. of such salaries,
&c. to this new General Superannuation. Fund"—
such Fier centage to be paid by the respective efficers
into the National Debt Office" nithin seven days
after every payment of their salaries. All vacancies,
new appointments, &c. are to be filled up, of course,
after sth January, according to the new regulations.
It is here necessary to observe, with reference to
the plan of reduction, &c. that it is in:ended that all
those o:ficers whose situations ate to be retained, and
whose salaries exceed those allowed under the new
and reduced scale, shall continue to enjoy their pre-
sent salaries, &c. but without being permitted to ob-
tain the usual progressive advance to which they
would otherwise have been entitled, until they be-
come entitled under the new and reduced scale to sa-
laries, which, with such progressive advance, would
equal those they now possess. This indulgence, how-
ever, is not to be unqualified, as it it intended that
all Officers so circumstanced, and whose emoluments
exceed what is het eafter to be attached to their parti-
cular offices, shall be required to make an additional
contribution, according to the following scale, namely :
—An additional 21 per cent. upon all salaries (thus
I situated) of £lOO and not exceeding £5OO-5 per
cent. on ditto not exceeding £looo—and 10 per cent.
on all salaries, &c. exceeding I.looo—being in the
whole a per centage of 7} on the first class-10 on the
second—and 15 per cent. on the third class.
This additional contribution is not, however, to be
required unless the excess.of salary above that to be
hereafter allowed shall be double the amount of the
further contribution thus required ; and also to cease
whenever such salaries shall become, by progressive
advance, assimilated to the new and reduced scale of
payments.
It is further intended that all Officers who may be
permitted to retire upon the superannuation allow-
ance shall receive one-half of such allowance out of
the new fund, to be created by contribution, in manner
before mentioned, and the other half will be paid by
the Public as at present.
It is also in contemplation to establish a Scale, to-
'tally new, for the regulation of the Superannuation
Allowance, and which new scale will be much less
advantageous to the retired Officers than that now
existing.