STATE PAPERS. 



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EXCHEaUER. 



King's Remembrancer. 



Clerk of the Pleas. 



Clerk of the Pipe. 



Comptroller of the Pipe. 



Deputy ditto. 



Maishal. 



Foreign Apposer. 



Surveyor and Receiver-General 

 of Green ^^'ax. 



Three Messengers out of four. 



Lord Treasurer's Remembran- 

 cer. 



Clerk of Foreign Estreats. 



Clerk of the Nichils. 



Comptrollers of First Fruits. 



ALIENATION OFFICE. 



Three Commissioners. 

 Receiver-General. 

 Two Entering Clerks. 

 IVIaster in Chancery. 

 Solicitor of the Exchequer. 



SCOTLAND. 



Direction of the Court of Chan- 

 cery. 



Clerk of the Court of Chan- 

 cery. 



Principal Clerk in the Court of 

 Admiralty. 



King's Remembrancer. 



Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer 

 in the Court of Exchequer. 



One of the Clerks in the Pipe 

 Office. 



Presenter of Signatures, Ex- 

 checpjer. 



Register of Seisins. 



Clerk of the Admission of No- 

 taries in the Couit of Session. 



All tiiese offices are understood 

 by your committee to be executed 

 wholly by deputy, and to come. 



therefore, within the principle of 

 regulation or abolition after the 

 termination of the present inte- 

 rests. It is however necessary to 

 observe, with respect to the offices 

 of Director of the Court of Chan- 

 cery, Presenter of Signatures, and 

 Register of Seisins in Scotland, 

 that as the duties of these three 

 offices are stated to be highly im- 

 portant, and not only intimately 

 connected with each other, but 

 with the legal forms and proceed- 

 ings on which the titles and secu- 

 rity of real estates essentially de- 

 l)end in that part of the united 

 kingdom, your conmiittee would, 

 upon every principle, abstain from 

 interfering with any of those legal 

 forms and proceedings ; and all 

 which tliey have to submit with 

 resjject to the offices in question 

 is, that the emoluments of them 

 ought to be so regulated, as to 

 ensure the due execution in per- 

 son of their respective duties, by 

 individuals competent by their 

 professional knowledge to dis- 

 charge those duties, and by their 

 station in society to give such 

 security as may be deemed ade- 

 quate to the extent and nature of 

 the trust appertaining to each of 

 them respectively. 



IRELAND. 



All the offices in the courts of 

 Ww in Ireland, included in the list 

 annexed to the bill of IS 13, with 

 the exception of those which have 

 hitherto been in the gift of the 

 chief judges of the couits of law 

 in Ireland, ought, in the opinion 

 of your committee, to be regulated 



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