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ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



DEPARTMBNTS OF THB ADJUTANT 

 GENERAL AND OP THE GUAR- 

 TER-MASTER-GEKERAL AT HEAD- 

 aUARTERS. 



Your committee have ascertain- 

 ed that a considerable reduction 

 has been made in both of these 

 branches of the military establish- 

 ment. 



The charge of the Adjutant-Ge- 

 neral's Department appears to 

 have been, 



Inthe year 1S15 . 10,383Z. 

 1816 , 9,528/. 



And the estimate for the pre- 

 sent year is 8,309^. ; being a di- 

 minution of 2,074L as compared 

 with the year 1815. 



The charge in the department 

 of the Quartcr-Master-General ap- 

 pears to have been. 



In the year 1815 , 8,695Z. 

 1816 . 9,849^ 



And the estimate for the present 

 year is, 5,981/. ; being a diminu- 

 tion of 3,868/. since the reduction 

 of the army. Your committee 

 have had the further satisfaction 

 to find, by a comparison of the 

 present establishment of this office 

 •with that of 1792, that the num- 

 ber of persons now employed ex- 

 ceeds only by one, the number 

 borne on the establishment of 

 1792. 



PAY OFFICE. 



In the Payinaster-General's de- 

 partment, the business lias in some 

 respects necessarily increased by the 

 cessation of the war, which occa- 

 sions a very considerable augmen- 

 tation of the number of claimants 

 for half- pay, and other retired al- 

 lowances ; and which may, for a 



considerable time, in a great'de- 

 gree counterbalance the decrease 

 of expense which would otherwise 

 be occasioned by a reduction of 

 establishment, or a diminution of 

 the magnitude of the annual ac- 

 counts. 



The Deputy and Assistant-De- 

 puty Paymasters-General abroad 

 are intended to be abolished during " 

 peace, and the duties of paying 

 the troops on foreign stations are 

 to devolve upon the Commissariat 

 Depaitment : the saving of ex- 

 pense uj)on this head will be, for 

 the present year, as compared Avith 

 the last, 8,528/. which is the dif- 

 ference between the actual reduc- 

 tion of the expense of this branch 

 of the department, and the allow- 

 ances granted according to a re- 

 gulation of I2th July, 1816, fix- 

 ing the rate of svich allowances. 

 These allowances amount to one- 

 fourth of the pay of those De- 

 puties who received 3/. oi' 2/. per 

 day, and to one-third to all Depu- 

 ties who received 1/. 10s. and to 

 assistants (in all cases) to one- 

 fourth of their pay; which allow- 

 ances, considering the great trust 

 and responsibility imposed on those 

 officers, your committee do not 

 think unreasonable. 



Your committee observe, that 

 many of the clerks who have been 

 added during the war for conduct- 

 ing the increased business of this 

 departnent, have been admitted as 

 temporary or extra cleiks, with- 

 out being put upon the establish- 

 ment; in consequence of which, 

 no permanent expense can be 

 thrown upon the public, whenever 

 the diminution of business will 

 allow a reduction in the number 

 of the persons employed. 



WAR 



