The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1901-03-09

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tands TO the nation, dn return for z,shac,,
he received a fixed civil list Of 5000, 600
pounds sterling subsequently increased
70 100000 pounds sterling. He also en-
]oyed a considerable income derived from,
some minor sources of revenue whachi
We're not included in the bargain. Yet, :.
notwithstanding, parliament during this
reign had to pay off debts on the civil;
list amounting on the whole to 339S, 600!
pounds sterling. ::
This arrangement was continued on the.
accession of George VI, when the SCOTCH
and Irish land revenues We're first sur
rendered and again on the accession of
William w, who received civil list of
$4,000 pounds sterling, Of which 10000
pounds sterling was appropriated, to the
privy purse of the king and queen p
| There is no doubt, says q historian Of
the civil list, that in the time of the,
Conquerer the crown lands were prince
ly patrinnony, but during successive
reiGns they were sadly: reduced by lavish
grants to favorttes; notwithstanding con-
| tinued augmentations by forfeiture and
| .esschests. r..
Soon after the restoration a committee
of the house of commons reported that
| was f2l7 500 besides $4,000 from Dean
Forest, but in three years time Charles II.
| reduced it 100000 It was still further
dissipated by William III, and on the
| acc ession Of Queen Anne parliament en-
deavored 10 save the remnant by an act
! 4 Anne, c. 3 which practically prohibited
alienation of the crown lands and enacted
stringent provisions in regard to the
length of the term for which they might
be leased and the rents to be reserved.
| AT the accession OF George III. the
gross return from the English land rev.
enues was only about tS9, 900 year and
about 1887 the clear annual surplus was
. reckoned to be less than f11,OOO.
| AT the commencement of the queens
reign, that is, for the year 1889, the
| surplus revenue paid into the exchequer
was 91sG,COO. AS the result of careful
and judicious management this surplus
has steadily increased. For 1928 it
was 1850 600: for 1928. 1900, 900; for
1928, l2ii5,009. In 1928 it was $780,
0OO and during the next decade it passed
the gross amount of the civil list and
amounted to 1890 in 1929 while for
the year ending March 81, 1900, the sur
plus paid to the exchequer was $4,000.
1t should ALSO be borne in mind that dur
ing the last twenty years the crown, like
other landlords, has suffered from the
great depreciation in rents from agricul-
| tural lands.
THE expression crown lands covers
an infinite variety Of property. 1t COM
prises ground rents in London and sal
mon fishing in Scotland, nearly 10000
acres Of agricultural land in England, the
new forest, Dean Forest and Windsor
great park. Minerals of many kinds help
! to swell the revenue; coal in Dean Forest
and in undersea mines, gold in Wales,
I lead in ethe~Isle%of. Maneandy salt on the
! Tees are but few instances. No land
| lcrd in the kingdom has such a diversi-
fed property or SO many local laws and
customs to deal with as his majesty's
| commissi oners of woods, forests and land
| revenues have.
| "In Scotland there are feudal dues and
rents whose very names would be for
eign to an Englishman. From Attorney
| come dues probably more ancient than
the conquest, and the immortal courts of
the Isle of Man have traces of a scandi-
navian origin.'
| At the beginning of Queen Victoria
reign an act was passed by parliament
| for the support Of her najesty's house.
hold and of the honor Of dignity of the
crown of the united kingdom Of Great
Britain and Ireland" By this act the
queen surrendered to the public for her
| life and six month thereafter the land
revenues of the crown, receiving in re-
! turn an annual civil list allowance Of
/ f3S5,O0 made up as follows: r
| Eer ma iesfv's prxx n,,rse sa ON
| Salaries Of household 131, 200
| Expenses of household. .172,0 500
| Royal bounty, ETC.. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. IL, 200
| Unapproprlated ................ S,o4O
| The revenues of the duchies Of Corn
wall and Lancaster are outside the civil
list arrangement. The revenues Of the
first named are vested in the eldest son
of the reigning sovereign, that is to say
they go to King Edwards only surviving
son, now the duke of Cornwall and York.
The duchy of Lancaster remains the prop
erty of the crown. 4 s-s
AS a matter of history the marketable
l! value Of the crown lands has risen to
more than double the fixed sum decided
on at the beginning of the queens reign
! as the annual income of the sovereign.
The revision of the civil list will be the
main occupation Of the coming session OF
! parliament, and most probably on in.
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