The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of the House of Commons [and of the House of Lords] Containing an Account of the Interesting Speeches and Motions ... During the 1st Session of the 14th [-18th] Parliament of Great BritainJ. Almon, 1793 - Great Britain |
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Page 46 - All the money he receives is for the navy fervices, and placed under, of carried over, to one of thefe branches; the money in each .branch is fubdivided, arranged, and kept under various different heads of fervices; the whole balance, at the time he leaves the office, continues to be liable, whether it be in his hands, or in the hands of his reprefentatives, in cafe of his death, to the fame fervices for which its feveral parts were originally...
Page 50 - ... time. The treafurer's balance muft therefore exceed the navy balance as much as the fum of the bills afligned upon him for payment exceeds the fum of the bills aftually paid by him.
Page 46 - ... was paid, an opportunity of receiving their wages when It is in their power to apply for them. The only fund applicable to this fervice is the money in the pay branch, placed under the head of " To pay (hips, and carry on recalls :" this fervice is at an end when, the (hips books are made up.
Page 45 - ... to thofe accountants who receive public money out of the exchequer, by way of impreft, and upon account. The certificate of the accounts depending in the office of the auditors of the impreft...
Page 51 - January 1779, to the 31(1 of Auguft laft, with the total of the balances remaining in his hands at the end of each month, as they appear in the monthly certificates to the treafury. As the public...
Page 53 - ... it would be very voluminous and troublefome to the office. — But fince the treafurer in office does now clear the imprefts of fome of his...
Page 15 - It would not derogate from the real glory of the crown to accept of the advice. It would be no diminution of true grandeur to yield to the respectful petitions of the people. The tutelage of that house might be a hard term : but the guardianship of that house could not be disgraceful to a constitutional king.
Page 53 - July laft, when the impreft certificate was tranfmitted to us, were in arrear in the office of the auditor of the impreft twenty-two Years. This delay is occafioned by the accounts of...
Page 52 - ... upon him, but not prefented to him for payment. The principal caufe of the magnitude of this balance, is the practice in this office, of not applying money iflued under one head, towards fatisfying a demand upon any other head of fervice...
Page 365 - Should there be Errors, he may either pay the Balance to, or receive it from, the Paymafter in Office, according as it may be determined ; then, and not before, he will be entitled to his Quietus; which, being the formal, official Difcharge of every Public Accountant, cannot but be fubfequent to the complete Examination, and the Payment of the Balance, if any, according to the final Adjuftment of his Accounts. Having, therefore, not heard, either from the Accountants themfelves, or from thofe who...