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ſuppreſſed, by which the Treaſury loſt the appointment of four hundred and fifty-nine offices of different ſorts; but two hundred were added to perform the new duty under the Exciſe. In this caſe alſo as the diminution and addition of officers will be included in the general ſtatement of revenue officers, no further notice of it will be taken here, except to obſerve that the Treaſury loſt a patronage equal to the extent of the whole Salt eſtabliſhment, the new officers being all in the gift of the Commiſſioners of Exciſe, with whoſe appointments the Treaſury have very little interference.
The offices of the Auditors of the Land Revenue for England and Wales next attracted the attention of Mr. Pitt. The duties of theſe, it appeared to him, were of a nature which would very well admit of their being performed by the Commiſſioners for auditing the Public Accompts: one was held by two gentlemen for their joint lives, the two others during pleaſure. Theſe were aboliſhed by law in 1799[1], at which time the reverſion of the moſt valuable, worth more than 3000l. a-year, was
- ↑ 39 Geo. III. C.83,
