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fund for this diftinct fervice, in the place of a fund compofed of many articles, fubtracted from as many different fums granted principally for other purposes.

The other two contributions are, the poundage, and the one day's pay : thefe are blended together in to one fund, and applied for the fupport of Chelfea hofpital; the payment of the returned poundage, and of certain fees and falaries.

Chelsea hofpital is another of thofe diftinct fervices that requires to be provided for by a feparate fund: one branch of it, the fupport of the out-penfioners, is at this time a fpecific voted fervice: a fimilar independent fund fhould be eftablifhed, to defray the expences of the other branch of this charity.

If the returned poundage be in ferted in the cftablishment, the fees and falaries will be the only fervices remaining; and may be annually provided for in like manner by a feparate eftimated fum; in which may be included a provifion for the payment of the is. and Ed. duties, and. for any other contingent expence that concerns the whole army, and may have escaped our attention or inquiry.

The number of independent funds propofed to be eftablished by thefe regulations, are five: the clothing, the recruiting, the widows, Chelfea hofpital, and, the mifcellaneous fervices. In claffing the fervices, with a view to determine how many fe, parate funds it may be neceffary to create, the number as well as nature of the fervices fhould be attended to. It is inconvenient either to multiply funds unneceffarily, or to incumber one fund with too many, or with heterogeneous and unconnected fervices.

The accounts of all the funds for Specilie fervices, in the pay-office,

fhould be balanced every year, and as foon as poffible after the expira tion of the year, and the state of them tranfmitted to the war-office before the grants of parliament for the enfuing year are voted, that the fecretary at war may be the better enabled to form his estimates for the future fervices.

Our regulations have been ap plied to the circumftances of a marching regiment of foot: in other of the army corps, as in the guards, the cavalry, the invalids, the militia, and the marines, thefe circumtances vary; but, probably, not fo materially as to prevent the fame regulations from being eafily reconciled and made conformable to fuck diftinétions.

The general principle we have had in view is, that the establishment fhould contain the real full pay of every perfon named or defcribed therein, and nothing more; and that every other fervice, or class of fervices, relative to the army, fhould be provided for by its own diftinct fund.

The advantages that are intended to be derived from the regulations propofed are thefe; to render the army eftablishment fimple and intelligible-to reduce the actual pay of each officer and private man throughout the army to a certainty, and in fimilar ranks to an equality; each will know the reward of his fervice, and the ground on which he may claim it-to relieve the office that keeps the accounts, and the office that paffes them, and the agent, from much unneceffary trouble; no unimportant confideration in the prefent ftate of the army accounts, The computing the offreckonings, a branch fo extensive as to give a title to one of the officers in the pay-office, will be at an end, and the officer become unneceffary.

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There will be no computations and caftings of the allowances to widows; poundage and hofpital to form, enter, examine, and compare. The amount of the fund for the allowance to widows, in this year 1767, was 15,6041. 175. 2d.; the number of articles that compofed it was fixty-four: the poundage was 52,3041.; and the number of articles 492: the hofpital was 2,6371. 5s. 7d. and the number of articles 359; and in time of war the number of articles is very much increafed. The account of every distinct service, or clafs of fervices, will be reduced to a fimple debtor and creditor account; and the public will every year be made acquainted with the amount of their expence for each service, and be the better able to judge where to retrench.

Another effect which thefe regulations tend to produce, ought particularly to be mentioned; if the eftimates for thefe fervices be confined to the probable demands of the year, and the fums granted for them are applied, as they ought to be, as foon as the fervices are incurred, the fund of voted fervices remaining unapplied, out of which the extra ordinaries have hitherto been paid, will be greatly diminished, if not

totally exhaufted, and eftimates for the extraordinaries will then become indifpenfable.

We were purfuing our enquiry, and proceeding in our obfervations upon various branches that grow out of the fubject matter before us, the refult of which we intended fhould have formed a part of this Report; when, finding from the votes of the houfe of commons, that the pay-office of the army was one of the fubjects of prefent deliberation, we thought it our duty to complete our enquiry into that office, and to fubmit our proceedings, with fuch obfervations as had occurred to us, upon the manner of conducting the pay of the army, that the legislature might be poffeffed of fuch information as has been disclosed to us relative to the office of the paymafter-general of his majesty's forces.

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SUPPLIES granted by Parliament for the Year Year 1785.

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NAVY.
FEBRUARY 3.

OR 18,000 men, including 3,620 marines for
fea-fervice for 1785, at 41. per man per month
MARCH 7.

For the ordinary of the navy, including half-pay to fea and marine officers

Towards the building, rebuilding, and repairs of fhips of war, in his majesty's yards, and other extra works, exclufive of wear and tear in ordinary for 1785

£. s. d.

936,000 0 0

6752307 17 2

940,000 0 o

2,551,307 17 2

ARM Y.
FEBRUARY 17.

For 18,053 effective men, commiffioned and noncommiffioned officers included, to be employed in the year 1785 for guards, garrifons, &c. in Great Britain, Guernsey, Jerfey, &c.

For forces and garrifons in the plantations and atGibraltar

For the difference between the charge of the British and Irish establishment, of fix battalions of foot at Gibraltar, in North America, and the Weft Indies

For the pay of one regiment of light dragoons and five battalions of foot in the East Indies

For full pay for 365 days, to reduced and fupernumerary officers

For general and staff-officers for 1785

For the allowance to the paymafter-general, fecretary at war, commiffary-general of the mufters, judge advocate-general, comptrollers of the army accounts, their deputies, clerks, &c. and for the amount of exchequer fees, to be paid by the paymaster-general, and on account of poundage to be returned to the infantry for 1785

For five battalions of Hanoverians from June 25, 1784, to the refpective times of their return

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For the in and out-penfioners of Chelsea Hospital, and the expences of the faid Hofpital for 1781

APRIL 18.

For army extraordinaries, &c. from Dec. 25, 1783, to Dec. 25, 1784, not provided for by parliament APRIL 25

For fubfidies due to the landgrave of Heffe-Caffel, and to the reigning duke of Brunswick for 1785

To make good a deficiency in the fum voted for a fubfidy to the landgrave of Heffe-Caffel for 1784 For penfions to the widows of commiffioned officers, &c. for 1785

MAY 5.

For the charge of feveral battalions of foot, for different periods in 1784 Upon account of the reduced officers of the army and marines for 1785

For the allowances to the officers and private gentlemen of the two troops of horfe-guards reduced, and to the fuperannuated gentlemen of the four troops of horfe-guards for 1785

Upon account of the commiffioned officers of the British American forces for 1785

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To make good a deficiency on the fum granted upon that account in 1783

To ditto for 1784

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Upon account of feveral officers late in the fervice of the states-general for 1785

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ORDNANCE.
MARCH 14.

For the expence of fervices performed by the office of ordnance for land fervice, and not provided for by parliament in 1784

For the office of ardnance for land fervice for 1785

42,035 13 8 350,820 1 9.

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·APRIL 7.

To discharge a farther fum raised by exchequer bills, by virtue of another act of last feffion

392,855 15 5.

1,500,000 0

3,000

1,000,000 0

APRIL 25.

Upon account, towards completing the road from Ballantrae in Ayrefhire, to Stranrae in Galloway, North Britain

MAY 9.

To reimburse general James Murray, late governor and vice-admiral of Minorca, the fum of 5000l. paid to him by Mr. James Sutherland, purfuant to a verdict of the court of exchequer in 1783, and the cofts in that fuit

JUNE 6.

For the falaries of the civil officers of Eaft Florida, from the 24th of June 1784, to the 24th of June 1785

To make good a fum iffued to Thomas Cotton, efq. to discharge bills drawn on the commiffioners of the treasury by John Parr, efq. governor of Nova Scotia, and other fervices

For the civil establishment of Nova Scotia, from the 1st of January 1785, to the 1ft of January 1786 For ditto of the ifland of St. John in America, from the 1st of January 1785, to Jan. 1, 1786

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For ditto of the island of Cape Breton, from June 24, 178, to June 24, 1786

For ditto of the Bahama iflands, in addition to the falaries now paid to the public officers out of the duty, fund, and other incidental charges attending the fame, from Jan. 1, 1785, to Jan, 1, 1786

For ditto of the province of New Brunswick in America, from June 24, 1785, to June 24, 1786

For the falary of the chief justice of the Bermuda or Somers iflands, from June 24, 1785, to June 24, 1786; and to difcharge the arrears of falaries due to the attorney-general of the faid iflands, from July 19, 1778, to the 18th of April 1783

To make good a fum iffued for the relief of fundry American civil officers and others, who have fuffered on account of their attachment to his majesty's government

JUNE 14.

To make good the fums charged on the 41 per cent. in Barbadoes and the Leeward islands, which remained unfatisfied on the 5th of April 1785

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For prefent relief to fuch of the American loyalifts as have given fatisfactory proofs of their loffes to the commiffioners appointed by an act of the 23d of his prefent majefty, empowering them to enquire into the loffes and fervices of the American loyalifts, to be paid in a proportion of 40 per cent. to fuch of the

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