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| No. of Offices. | Annual Value. | |||
| Brought forward | 224 | 203,416 | ||
| the public accounts audited by thoſe officers may be moderately ſtated at | 70,000 | |||
| From which muſt be deduced as under, | ||||
| Expence of all forts of the New Board, in 1785, 9,900 | ||||
| Additions in 1801, 10,031 | ||||
| Between 1801 and 1805, 850 | ||||
| In 1805, a new Board was conſtituted of three Commiſſoners and Officers 9,575 | ||||
| And in 1806, the two Boards were conſolidated, two Commiſſioners added, with an increaſed eſtabliſhment, amounting in the whole to 14,811 | ||||
| 00,000 | ||||
| Total of the preſent eſtabliſhment of auditing public accounts | [1]45,168 | |||
| 000,000 | ||||
| Actual ſaving of charge in this department | 24,832 | |||
| The increaſed charge, occaſioned by the immenſe accumulation of public accompts, has prevented the direct ſaving by the above-mentioned meaſure being conſiderable; but the poſitive advantages derived to the country from the ſtrict inveſtigation, which thoſe accounts have undergone since 1785, are of incalcula- | ||||
| 000 | 000,000 | |||
| Carried forward | 224 | 228,248 |
- ↑ From this however ſhould be deducted the ſalary of one Commiſſioner who is dead, to whom no ſucceſſor is to be appointed.
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