cus 



cus 



Total gross receipt of the customs of Great Britain, in the year ending 5th of 

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

 paid into the Exchequer. 



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



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 ? 



not brought to^ account till 1806 ... 5 



Gross receipt of permanent and temporary duties within ? 12379 98^ 19 1 L 



L. s. d. 



5J,843 16 3 

 54,657 3 84 



283,759 1 3^ 



Total L. 12,769,244 



Paid drawbacks, repayments on over-entries, and bounties 



of the nature of drawbacks 



Bounties for promoting national objects ... 

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

 Paid towards the expenses of the civil government of Scet-^ 



land 5 



Charges of management 



Payments into the Exchequer 



Balance in the hands of the different collectors on the 5th ~) 



of January, 1807 5 



Balance in the hands of the Receiver General of Scotland 



on the 5th of January, 1807 



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



not brought to account till 1807 .... 



L. s. d. 

 1,560,346 11 8J 



307,864 3 li 

 34,989 13 3 



76,445 18 6 



655,603 S10 

 9,733,81.3 12 1 



58,594 11 6 

 61,542 8 7 

 280,043 12 7| 



Total 



L. 12,769,244 



Deducting from the gross receipt of 12,379,983^ 19*. IJd. the amount paid for 

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

 469,9831. 14s. 2d.; the total nett produce of the year will be 11,910,OOOZ. 4s. 

 which arose as follows : 



L. s. d. 



10,166,561 13 4| 



- - - - 621,566 16 5i 



1,035,988 17 8 

 remittances from the plantations, quarantine duty, &c. 85J882 17 5 



Total L. 11, 910,000 4 11J 



From duties inwards 



outwards 



coastways 



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/. 3s. 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. 8d. per cent, on the 

 gross receipt, or 67. 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, 

 filing every return by itself; and, at the 

 end of each term, to receive of the pro- 

 thonotaries 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- 



