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| No. of Offices. | Annual Value. | |||
| Brought forward | 224 | 228,248 | ||
| ble value. The number of employments were not altered by the ſuppreſſion of the two Auditors of the impreſt under the Act in that year, and the ſubſequent ſuppreſſion of the Auditorſhip of hides, as three Commiſſioners were added to the two exiſting Comptrollers of Army accompts, to conſtitute the new Board then eſtabliſhed. The ſubſequent acts added ſeven Commiſſioners, making the whole number ten,[1] without the Comptrollers, who ceaſed to be auditors under the laſt act, and one was added to their number; but the office of one of the new auditors having lapſed by death, and not being to be filled up, the increaſe in this department on the whole to be deduced is | 7 | |||
| 0000 | ||||
| Diminution in the number of employments, and ſaving in the annual charge in the Civil Liſt and the Exchequer | 217 | Offices | 000,0000 | |
| Of the annual value of | £ 228,248 |
- ↑ When the Act was depending in the Houſe of Commons in 1806, the Author ventured to expreſs an opinion, that increaſing the number of Commiſſioners would rather retard than accelerate the examination of the public accompts; inſtead of which increaſe he propofed the addition of fome more inſpectors. Experience may now be reſorted to, to decide whether that opinion was well founded.
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