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Brought over £175,000
In victualling priſoners of war abroad there has been a diminution of 5d. a day per man, which on the preſent number would be annually 23,300
  000,000— — —
Total ſaving, priſoners of war £ 198,300
Expenditure of the Sick and Hurt Department in the years 1804 and 1805 36,200  
Expenditure of the Tranſport Board for the ſame ſervices, with an increaſed navy, in 1807 and 1808 505,600
505,600— — —
In two years £30,600
Annual ſaving on the Sick and Hurt 15,300
By the determination of a contract, which had exiſted more than 40 years with one family, for conveying troops to and from Ireland, which was put an end to by the Tranſport Board, in 1795 ſoon after its formation, there has been a ſaving of about £132,000, equal in annual amount to 9,400
  000,000— — —
Total ſaving by improved management under the Tranſport Board, without, as already obſerved, taking any pecuniary credit for this Board now purchaſing ſtores £223,600
  000,000— — —

The next great and important head of ſaving. effected by Mr. Pitt was in navy and victualling bills and ordnance debentures.

A very large part of the expenditure of the navy is ſatisfied by bills which in the American war were

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