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No. of Offices. | Annual Value. | |||
Brought forward | 216 | 60,216 | ||
The Exchequer Act in 1783, the 23 Geo .3. c. 82. ſuppreſſed the Uſher Tally Cutters, the two Chamberlains, and the four Second Clerks in the Tellers Offices, all valuable ſinecures; but thoſe ſuppreſſions were not to fall in till the deaths of the parties | 8 | 10,000 | ||
Under the ſame act, the offices of Auditor and four Tellers were regulated, to take effect: after the deaths of the then poſſeſſors; the income of the former was at that time £ 19,800 a year, and would have been more now than is here ſtated, at | 60,000 | |||
The four Tellers would now have been | 88,000 | |||
000,0000 | ||||
Suppreſſions and regulations in the Exchequer | 158,000 | |||
Deduct the ſalaries of the Auditor and of the four Tellers | 14,800 | |||
000,0000 | ||||
Actual ſaving in the department of the Exchequer | 143,200 | |||
The Auditors' act: in 1785, 25 Geo. 3. c. 52. ſuppreſſed offices, the fees of which, on the National Debt alone at 100l. a million, would now have amounted to more than 60,000l. a year, on the accompts of the Bank, &c. and therefore on the whole of | ||||
0000 | 000,000 | |||
Carried forward | 224 | 203,416 |