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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



of a bill, which having passed the 

 House, was carried to the House 

 of Lords on the 17th of June, and 

 in the session of 1813, when the 

 same bill was carried to the House 

 of Lords on the 5th of April. 



The classification of the several 

 offices, and some of the jirovisions 

 of that bill, are followed and re- 

 ferred to in the course of this re- 

 port, as the most convenient mode 

 of conducting the inquiry relating 

 to them. 



The object of your committee 

 was to ascertain, first, what offices 

 may be reduced or regulated (after 

 the expiration of the existing inte- 

 rests) without detriment to the 

 public service. Secondly, under 

 what regulations such of those 

 offices as it may be deemed projier 

 to continue ought to be adminis- 

 tered after the expiration of the 

 existing interests. Thirdly, as it 

 is obvious, that whenever such 

 regulations and reductions as are 

 contemplated by your committee 

 shall be carried into effect, the 

 means of rewarding meritorious 

 public service will be in great 

 measure taken from the Crown, 

 your committee deem it indispen- 

 sable that provision should be 

 made for enabling the Crown, un- 

 der proper reguhitions and restric- 

 tions, to afford a reasonable recom- 

 pense foi' the faithful discliarg 

 of high and effective civil offices. 



OFFICES IN ENGLAND. 



The view which your committee 

 have taken of the two offices of 

 Chief Justice in Eyre, North and 

 South of Trent, is, that they may 

 be abolished without detriment to 

 the public service, and the emo- 

 luments thereof become a future 

 saving to the public; regard be- 



a future saving to the 



ing had in these, as well as in 

 every other office which forms the 

 subject of this report, to the ex- 

 isting interests. 



In the Exchequer, reasons of a 

 like nature exist for dealing in the 

 same manner with the offices of 



Auditor of the Exciiequer, 



Clerk of the Pells, 



Four Tellei s of the Exchequer ; 

 so that, whenever vacancies shall 

 occur in any of them, tiie salary 

 payable to the principal in such 

 office shall cease, and become a 

 saving to the public. 



Warden of the Cinque Ports, 



Governor of the Isle of Wight : 



The same rule applies to these 

 two offices, so that the salaries pny- 

 able at the Exchequer, or out of 

 any public funds, may cease, and 

 become 

 public. 



Commissary General of Musters. 

 — This office may beabolished with- 

 out inconvenience to the public 

 service. 



Joint Paymaster- General.— T!ie 

 office of one of the Joint Pay- 

 masters may also be abolished, 

 being wholly inefficient and use- 

 less, with regard to all business 

 connected with the army; but it 

 must be recollected, that an ef- 

 fective and very important situa- 

 tion, without salary, has been fre- 

 quently held, and is now held, by 

 one of the Joint Paymasteis ; for 

 the discharge of which your com- 

 mittee do not consider the salary 

 of 2,000/. at present attached to 

 the office of second paymaster, as 

 more than adequate ; but they sub- 

 mit to the House, that it will be 

 more consistent with the system 

 which they wish to introduce, that 

 the Vice-Pi esident of the Board of 

 Trade should receive a salary as 



such. 



