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No.of Offices. | Salaries. | ||
Brought over | 9 | 19,900 | |
Increaſe to the ſalary of the firſt Lord of the Admiralty to make it 5,000l. nett; ſtill lower than the ſalaries of the Secretaries of State | 2,150 | ||
Total increaſe to Admiralty and Navy Boards | 22,050 | ||
To the number of the Comiſſioners of Victualling, no addition has been made; but to their ordinary duties, which were increaſed beyond what they had been in any former war, there was added, in 1794, the purchaſe of proviſions and all victualling ſtores for the array on foreigrn ſtations, which compelled them to a long, attendance daily, inſtead of the moderate one of three days in the week before that buſineſs was thrown upon them; which induced an augmentation of ſalaries and allowances to the Commiſſioners and their ſecretary amounting to | 3,450 | ||
Total increaſe of naval eſtabliſhments of all forts | 9 | £25,500 |
But in this caſe, as in that of the Tranſport Board, ſavings were effected greatly exceeding the increaſed expence, as will be plainly ſhown in another place.
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