482 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1810. 



Register of High Court of De- 

 legates. 



Inthe Alienation Office: — Three 

 commissioners, receiver-general, 

 master in Chancery, two clerks. 



The duties of the four tellers of 

 the Exchequerare performed alto- 

 gether by their deputies ; and as 

 to their responsibility for the cus- 

 tody of public money, your com- 

 mittee observe, that the same 

 amount of security w^hich is requir- 

 ed from the tellers is usually given 

 to them by their deputies ; from 

 which your committee are led to 

 infer, that, both with respect to 

 their duties, and to their respon-^ 

 sibility, these offices might be 

 safely reduced to the present 

 emoluments of the deputies. 



The office of clerk of the parlia- 

 ment is performed almost wholly 

 by deputy, and is one of those 

 which would come within the pur- 

 view of the third resolution. On 

 the subject of this office, however, 

 your committee think it necessary 

 especially to represent, that the 

 clerk of parliament, though ap- 

 pointed by the crown, is a ser- 

 vant of the House of Lords. 



In the Mint, your committee 

 have to notice the following offices : 

 — Warden, comptroller, surveyor 

 of meltings, and clerk of the irons. 



In the Privy Seal Office : — The 

 four principal clerks. 



Four clerks in the Signet office. 



/K^ejBacwe:— Comptroller ge- 

 neral of accounts, inspector gene- 

 ral of inland duties, register to 

 commissioners of Excise. 



Yourcommittee,havingadverted 

 to the offices performed by deputy 

 in the colonies, think it necessary 

 to observe that :heir emoluments 

 arjse from fees and salaries paid 

 within the colonics. Your com- 



mittee have further to observe, that 

 notvvithstandingan act passedinthe 

 twenty-second year of his present 

 majesty's reign, c. 75, the object 

 of which was, to enforce residence 

 in the principals, many of these 

 offices continue to be executed 

 wholly by deputy. That act con- 

 tains a clause empowering the go- 

 vernors of colonies to give such 

 leave of absence as they shall see 

 occasion to give. But that power 

 appears to have been exercised to 

 so great an extent as to frustrate 

 what must no doubt have been the 

 true intention of the legislature. 



Your committee have ascer- 

 tained the following to be of that 

 description : 



Secretary and clerk of inrol- 

 ments in the Island of Jamaica, re- 

 gister of Chancery in ditto, receiver 

 general in ditto, clerk of the Crown 

 courts in ditto, naval officer in 

 ditto, secretary and clerk of the 

 courts in Barbadoes, prothonotary 

 of the court of Common Pleas in 

 ditto, provost marshal in ditto, 

 naval officer of Curafoa, secretary 

 of Tobago, naval officer of De- 

 merara. 



In Scotland, itappears toyour 

 committee thatthe followingoffices 

 comewithinthepurviewofthethird 

 resolution, as being wholly orprin- 

 cipally discharged by deputy. The 

 existence of many of these ancient 

 offices appears to be secured to 

 Scotland by the act of union ; but 

 it is also provided in that act, that 

 they should be subject to such re- 

 gulationsas the parliamentof Great 

 Britain shall hereafter make : 



Keeper of the great seal, keeper 

 of the privy seal, keeper of the 

 signet, lord register, director of 

 the court of Chancery, clerk to 

 ditto, receiver of bishops' rents, 



