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on such principles as shall ensxn-e 

 the performance of their duties in 

 person, by those who hold them, 

 at such just and reasonable sala- 

 ries as shall hereafter be deter- 

 mined on. 



The following are the offices 

 enumerated in that list, which are 

 understood to have hitherto been 

 in the nomination of the crown : — 

 Public Registrar of Deeds, 

 Clerk of Crown and Hanaper, 

 Chief Remembrancer, 

 Clerk of the Pipe, 

 Comptroller of the Pipe, 

 Chirographer, 



Prothonotary, Common Pleas, 

 Prothonotary, King's Bench, 

 Crown Office, King's Bench, 

 Transcriptor and Foreign Ap- 



poser. 

 Clerk of the Report Office, 

 Pursuivant, Court of Exche- 

 quer, 

 Register of Forfeitures, 

 Usher of the Exchequer, 

 Register, Court of Chancery, 

 Accountant-Gencral, ditto, 

 Serjeant at Arms,^Pleas Office, 

 Lord Treasurer's, or 2d Re- 

 membrancer, Exchequer. 

 The right of appointment Vb the 

 Clerkship of the Pleas of the 

 Court of Exchecjuer has been con- 

 tested by the Chief Baron of that 

 court ; and the right is not yet 

 finally determined. 



The duties of the Accountant- 

 Genei-al of the Court of Chancery 

 are now performed in j)erson by 

 the individual who holds the office j 

 a vacancy in the office having oc- 

 curred since the passing of the 

 bill of 1813. 



The same observation applies 

 to the office of Comptroller of the 

 Pipe. 



COLONIAL OFFICES. 



Upon the colonial offices suffi- 

 cient materials have not been laid 

 before your committee for present- 

 ing them fully and satisfactorily 

 to the view of the House j but the 

 general piinciple to be applied in 

 dealing with them appears to be, 

 in the first place, that of enforcing, 

 to the utmost, residence within 

 the colonies, or foreign possessions 

 to which those offices belong, and 

 personal performance by the prin- 

 cipal of the duties annexed to 

 them : the second object to be 

 attained ought to be the reduction 

 of the salaries to such a rate, as 

 n)ay afford a fair and sufficient re- 

 com|)ense for the services to be 

 jjerformcd ; and any saving which 

 can be derived from such legu- 

 lations should be applied (as the 

 case may be) in aid of some of the 

 public burdens incidentiil to the 

 civil government of such colonies 

 or foreign possessions : observing 

 farther, that in the old colonies 

 any such application of savings 

 must be made at the recommen- 

 dation of the governors of such 

 colonies, with the consent of the 

 local legislatures of each. 



It is difficult to state, with ac- 

 curacy, the aggregate annual value 

 of all the offices which have been 

 mentioned. Those which depend 

 upon fees fluctuate considerably in 

 their amount from various cir- 

 cumstances ; and there aie sevcjal 

 others (particularly those belong- 

 ing to the colonies) of which the 

 income has never been exactly 

 leturned. Referring, therefore, 

 to the statements already befoie 

 the House in the Third Report of 

 Public Expenditure, and in the 



Reports 



