The Reports of the Commissioners Appointed to Examine, Take, and State the Public Accounts of the Kingdom,: Presented to His Majesty, and to Both Houses of Parliament: with the Appendixes Complete |
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24th December Account affigned Allowance Amount Army Auditor Balance Beachcroft BEMBRIDGE Bills Bufinefs Buſineſs Caſhier Collector Commander in Chief Commiffary Commiffioners confifts Daniel Wray Deductions Deputy Ditto Drummond Duties Efquire Eſtabliſhment Examinant faith Exchequer Excife Expences faid fame Fees fent feveral fhould figned fince Firſt fome fuch Gratuities Guy Carleton Hands himſelf Hire Hofpital Horfes hundred Pounds iffued Impreft July June laft Land Tax Lord Holland Mafter Majefty's Michaelmas Months Navy Navy Board Neave neceffary neral Nett Number Officers and Clerks paffed paid Pay Office Paymafter Payment Pells Perfons Piggott Poundage Pounds Ten Shillings prefent Provifions Public Money purchaſed Purpoſe Quarter Maſter Receipt Regiment remitting Richard Rigby Right Honourable Salaries Second Clerk Secretary at War Shillings and Six Sir Gilbert Elliot Six Pence Subfiftence taken upon Oath Tally Court Teller TH HIS Examinant thefe theſe thofe thoſe thouſand Pounds Treaſurer ufual Veffels Victualling Vouchers Waggons Warrant William
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Page 189 - Bounty (that is, the governors of the Bounty of Queen Anne for the Augmentation of the Maintenance of the Poor Clergy).
Page 22 - It appears to be cuftomary for the Receiver of the Firft Fruits, to detain in his Hands the Produce of the whole Year, until Eight or Nine Months after that Year is ended, befides receiving the current Produce of thofe Months ; and for the Receiver of the Tenths to detain in his Hands, for at...
Page 70 - ... ftage. The public have a right to be informed how their money has been expended, and as fpeedily as poffible after the expenditure : the evils attending delay are many and obvious, both to the pcrfon accounting, and to thofe entitled to call for the account.
Page 52 - Succeffors ; they depend not upon, nor are connected with, each other. It is regular to examine and pafs Accounts in order of Time; but in the Cafe of the Paymaster's Accounts, Convenience, both public and private, will warrant a Deviation from this Rule.
Page 22 - ... advantageous to the public. We therefore, in obedience thereto, think it our duty to fubjoin one obfervation, that has occurred to us during the progrefs of our inquiries.
Page 10 - ... majefty, for defraying the charge of the pay and cloathing of the militia, he is ordered to pay to the...
Page 74 - ... and intelligible fyftem. To trace this alteration through every branch of the bufinefs, to mark all its effects, that it does not in anywife difturb the pay of the army, perplex the accounts, or throw difficulties or delay in the paffing them ; to point out the fteps By which it ought gradually and methodically to be introduced, is a Work of long ferious attention and accurate examination ; but the...
Page 34 - Iflue until many Days after it is craved ; and therefore the Boards are careful to apply early enough, to guard againft the Hazard of a Demand upon an exhaufted Fund. To fearch into the actual and probable Demands, at that Time, upon each of thefe...