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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 |
