cus 



cus 



Total gross receipt of the customs of Great Britain, in the year ending 

 January, 1807, with the payments to which it was subject, and the nett 

 paid into the Exchequer. 



Balance in the hands of the different Collectors on the 5th 7 

 of January, 1806 ..... ' . 5 



Balance in the hands of the Receiver General of Scotland 



Bills arising and remitted out of the revenue of 1805, but 7 

 not brought to account till 1806 .... 3 



6ross receipt of permanent and temporary duties within 7 jo ""79 983 

 the year ....... 5 



L. 



50,843 

 54,657 

 283,759 



5th of 

 amount 



If, 

 3 

 1 



19 



Total i.12,769,244 4$ 



Paid drawbacks, repayments on over-entries, and bounties 7 

 of the nature of drawbacks 5 



Bounties for promoting national objects .... 



Money imprest in the hands of out-port collectors, &c. 



Paid towards the expenses of the civil government of Scot- 

 land 



Charges of management 



Payments into the Exchequer 



Balance in the hands of the different collectors on the 5th 7 

 of January, 1807 5 



Balance in the hands of the Receiver General of Scotland 7 

 on the 5th of January, 1807 .... 5 



Bills arising and remitted out of the revenue of 1806, but 7 

 not brought to account till 1807 .... 5 



L. a. d. 



1,560,346 11 8i 



307,864 3 H 

 34,989 13 3 



76,445 18 6$ 



655,603 8 10$ 

 9,733,813 12 l| 



58,594 11 6 

 61,542 8 7 

 280,043 12 7 



Total L 12,769,244 4* 



Deducting from the gross receipt of 12,379,9837. 19*. \%d. the amount paid for 

 drawbacks on exportation, and in bounties for promoting national objects, being 

 469,983/. 14s. 2d. -, the total nett produce of the year will be 11,910,000/. 4s. 

 which arose as follows : 



L. a. d. 



10,166,561 13 4 



621,566 16 5 



1,035,988 17 8 



remittances from the plantations, quarantine duty, &c. 85,882 17 5 



From duties inwards 

 -^ outwards 

 coastways 



Total .L.11.91J.UOO 4 Hi 



The total expense of collecting the cus- 

 toms of Great Britain was, in the year 1795, 

 at the rate of 61 19s. 5d. per cent, on the 

 gross receipt, or 10/. 3*. 5d. per cent, on 

 the nett produce ; but in consequence of 

 the various regulations which have since 

 been adopted, the expense of the collec- 

 tion has been considerably reduced. In 

 the year ending the 5th of 'January, 1807, 

 it amounted to 51. 2s. Sd. per cent, on the 

 gross receipt, or 6/. 4s. 3d. per cent, on 

 the nett produce. 



CUSTOS brevium, the principal clerk 

 belonging to the court of common pleas, 

 whose business is to receive and keep all 

 the writs made returnable in that court, 

 tiling every return by itself; and, at the 

 end of each term, to receive of the pro- 

 thonotarits all the records of the nisi pri- 

 us, called the posteas. The posteas are 

 first brought in by the clerks of assize of 

 every circuit to that prothonotary who 

 entered the issue in the causes, in order 

 to enter judgment ; and after the protho- 



