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CONTENTS

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The Secretary of State for War, and the Army	27
The Navy: the Lord High Admiral	28
The Admiral-in-chief responsible to the King and Council	28
Merchant ships, and ships of war	29
The High Court of Admiralty	29
The Admiralty Department of the Government	29
Services of the Duke of York (afterwards James II) in organizing it	30
The Lord High Admiral, and Commissioners of the Admiralty : the value of their records	30
Origin of the Post Office: connexion with the Secretary of State	30
And with the Exchequer, Treasury, and Auditors of Accounts	31
Effect of Parliament upon Departments of the Government	31
Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General	32
Office of the Paymaster-General	33
Office of Works and Public Buildings : Commissioners of Woods and Forests	33
Final division of those Offices	35
Commissioners of Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues: Auditor of Land Revenues: Office of Land Revenue Records and Enrolments	35
Local Government Board	36
General Register Office, Registry of Friendly Societies, National Debt Office, and Public Works Loan Commission	36
Commissions : Ecclesiastical Commission	36
Charity Commission	36
The idea of a Commission as old as Domesday Book	36
Permanent Commissions of Customs, and Inland Revenue	36
Nature of the Commission of the Commissioners of the Treasury	37
The Treasury in existence before the Exchequer	37
Growth of the Treasury since the final disappearance of a Lord High Treasurer	37