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No. of Annual | Offices. Value. | |
---|---|---|
Brought forward | 219 | £ 2,531,000 |
By improvement of the revenue ariſing from the landed eſtates of the Crown | 59,000 | |
Limitation of Home Secret Service Money | 0,000,000 | |
£ 2,590,000 | ||
0,000,000 |
Theſe meaſures of œconomy, and for correcting abuſes, were followed up by other laws, in the adminiſtration of Lord Grenville, for enſuring the payment of the public revenue, in various branches, regularly into the exchequer, and guarding againſt abuſes in the expenditure of it[1]; and for abolishing some offices in the customs, and regulating others, in Ireland, on a similar plan with the one adopted in England[2]; alſo for an examination into abuſes in offices in Ireland [3]
The courſe, we propoſed to purſue, leads us next to conſider the ſtate of the influence of the Crown, as derived from the number of perſons in the Houſe of Commons holding employments during pleaſure now, and who held ſuch at ſome former periods. By the Civil Liſt Act in 1782, the undermentioned offices were aboliſhed; many of the poſ-