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10,000l. a-year, which was before unlimited [1] : but as the iſſues on that head were fluctuating and uncertain, though ſometimes to a very large amount, no credit is taken for them in the following general eſtimate:
Recapitulation of Savings.
| No. of Offices |
Annual Value | |
|---|---|---|
| On a compare of the increaſe and de- creaſe of official appointments[2] |
219 | £ 198,000 |
| On Loans - - - - - - - - | 483,000 | |
| On purchaſes made by the Commiſioners for Victualling, inſtead of by favoured Contractors - - - - | 28,000 | |
| From meaſures adopted by the Commiſſioners for Tranſports - - - | 223,000 | |
| From diſcount on Navy and Victiualling Bills being diſcontinued - - | 1,100,000 | |
| Do. on Ordnance Debentures - - | 499,000 | |
| 000 | 0,000,000 | |
| Carried forward | 219 | £ 2,531,000 |
- ↑ By the 22 Geo. III. c. 82. In the ſeven laſt years of the
late reign, the average was £64,285 a year. Commons Jour-
nals, vol, xxxii. p, 467. - ↑ It ſhould here be noticed again, that the ſavings to ariſe from the regulation of two of the Tellerſhips, and the abolition of the two Chamberlainſhps, and Tally-writerſhip in the Exchequer, the Auditorſhips of the Land Revenue, and the profits ariſing from ſuch of the patent offices in the Cuſtoms as have not fallen in, will not be effectual till the deaths, of the holders; but the Accts having paſſed for the ſeveral meaſures, the purpoſes cannot be defeated.
Brought.
