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30th Sept. 1778, to 29th Sept. 1779, 30th Sept. 1779, to 29th Sept. 1780,

An Account of all the Men raised in Great Britain and Ireland, for His Majefty's Land Forces on the British Eftablishment, (Militia and Fencible Men in North Britain not included,) from the 29th of September 1774, to the 29th of September 1780, diftinguishing each Year.

From 29th Sept. 1774, to 29th Sept. 1775, 30th Sept. 1775, to 29th Sept. 1776, 30th Sept. 1776, to 29th Sept. 1777, 30th Sept. 1777, to 29th Sept. 1778,

Number of men raised.

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War-Office, Jan. 23, 1781.

C. JENKINSON.

Lord Lifburne, from the admiralty, prefented the following

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Navy-Office, Jan. 1, 1781.

An Account of the Number of the Men who have died in actual Service in His Majesty's Navy fince the 1ft Day of January 1776, diftinguishing (as far as may be) thofe who have been killed by the Enemy; and alfo, of the Number of fuch Men as bave deferted the faid Service in the fame Period, as far as the feveral Accounts can be made up, diftinguishing each Year.

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Navy-Office, Jan. 23, 1781. An Account of all the Men raised for His Majefty's Navy, Marines included, from the 29th of September 1774, to the 29th of September 1780, diftinguishing each Year, prepared pursuant to a Precept of the Honourable House of Commons, dated the 5th of December 1780.

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To the Honourable the Knights, Citizens, and Burgeffes, in Parliament affembled.

The Second Report of the Commiffioners appointed to examine, take, and ftate, the Public Accounts of the Kingdom.

[See the First Report in page 120.]

PURSUING the line of inquiry marked out in our firft report to the legislature, namely, an examination of the balances in the hands of thofe accountants who receive money from the fubject, to be paid into the exchequer; that we might omit no office of receipt, and no receiver of the Appendix, public revenue under that defcription, we obtained from the No. 1. office of the auditor of the exchequer, "A lift of all the public offices where money is received for taxes or duties, and of the names of all perfons who are receivers of public money raised upon the fubject by taxes or duties, and who pay the fame into the exchequer.'

We have examined into the manner in which the public revenue is collected, received, and paid into the exchequer, in all thefe offices, and by all these receivers.

In the cuftoms, the receiver general, William Mellish, No. 2. efquire, certified to us, that upon the 10th of September laft,

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there was in his hands, exclufive of the current weekly receipt of the duties of the cuftoms, the fum of four thousand four hundred and twelve pounds three fhillings and ten pence; which fum was the amount of certain collections transmitted to him, either from the plantations, or particular out ports; and was to continue in his hands no longer than until the comptroller general, as to fome parts of it, and the commiffioners, as to other parts, fhould direct under what heads of duties the feveral items, of which this fum was compounded, fhould be arranged, and paid into the exchequer, or otherwife difpofed of. Mr. Mellifh has informed us, that No. 3. part of fum has been paid by him, according to orders of the commiffioners and comptroller general; and that the other part thereof, amounting to three thoufand two hundred. eighty-eight pounds fourteen fhillings and eleven pence farthing, was remaining in his hands the 20th inftant; this remainder, we are of opinion, the commiffioners and comptroller general should in their feveral departments arrange, and the receiver general fhould pay according to such arrangement as speedily as poffible.

By the examinations of Jofhua Powell, efquire, chief No. 4. clerk to the comptroller general; and of Mr. Anthony No. 5. Blinkhorn, affiftant to the receiver general, it appears that the duties of the cuftoms are collected by officers, either in London or at the out ports: in London, the chief teller every day receives them from the collectors, and pays them into the office of the receiver general; at the out ports, the collectors remit their receipt by bills to the receiver general, and are not permitted to retain in their hands above one hundred pounds, unless for special reafons, allowed of by the commiffioners, and by the lords of the treafury. The nett produce of every duty received in each week, is paid by the receiver general in the following week into the exchequer.

In the excife, we find, from the examinations of George Lewis Scott, efquire, one of the commiffioners, and of Richard Paton, efquire, fecond general accountant (both annexed to our first report) that the collectors retain in their hands no part of the duties they receive; and that the receiver general every week pays into the exchequer the nett produce of this revenue, unless fome forefeen demands in the following week make a refervation of any part of it neceffary.

In the ftamp office, we examined Mr. James Dugdale, No. 6. deputy receiver general; and Mr. John Lloyd, firft clerk to No. 7.

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the comptroller and accountant general; from whom we collect, that the whole produce of thefe duties, arifing either from the receipt at the office in London, or from bills remitted from the diftributors in the country, is paid every week into the exchequer.

In the falt office, Milward Rowe, efquire, one of the commiffioners, and Mr. John Elliot, correfpondent, were examined: The collectors of these duties are continually remitting their receipt to the office in bills; every week the account is made up, and the whole balance paid into the exchequer, referving always, in the hands of the cashier, a fum not exceeding five hundred pounds, for the purpose of defraying the incidental expences of the office.

In the office for licenfing hawkers and pedlars, we learn from Mr. James Turner, one of the commiffioners, that the riding furveyors keep remitting to this office, in bills, the duties they receive in the country; which the cafhier pays, together with what he receives in London, weekly, into the exchequer, pursuant to the act of the 9th and 10th of King William the third, provided his whole receipt amounts to more than two hundred pounds; referving in his hands fuch a fum as may be fufficient for the payment of falaries, incidents, and current expenees.

In the office for regulating hackney coaches and chairs, we collect from the examination of Mr. Jofeph Marfhall, clerk to the receiver general, that the duties or rents of the hackney coaches become due every lunar month, and of the hackney chairs every quarter; and thefe rents being usually paid within a certain time after they become due, the receiver general makes a payment of one thousand pounds into the exchequer every twenty-eight days, except that each of his quarterly payments amounts to five hundred pounds only, as he then referves in his hands a fum for the payment of falaries and the incidental expences of the office.

The punctuality and expedition with which the duties collected in thefe offices pafs from the pocket of the fubject into the exchequer, leave us no room to fuggeft any alteration in the time or manner of paying in the fame.

In the poft office, Robert Trevor, Efq. the receiver gene. ral, in answer to our precept, returned a balance of nineNo. 13. thousand three hundred fifty eight pounds two fhillings, in his hands upon the 4th of September laft. From his examinaNo. 14. tion, and from thofe of William Fauquier, Efq. accountant Ne. 15. general in this office, and of Mr. William Ward, collector

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