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The Eighth Report Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites Ireland

21/02/1809

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The Eighth Report Fees, Gratuities, Perquisites Ireland

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Duties.] ON F E E S , G R A T U I T I E S , . fcc. © economical mode of obviating it might, we think, have been devifed, than by recurring to the arrangement which exifted before the Union When it is confidered that the Money Bills in each Seffion have not only been diminished in number, but of late years greatly fimplified in their provifions, the principal regulations for collecting the Duties bein°- now contained in diftinct Bills, it does notfeem reafonable that the Law Officers fhould have the fame allowances as were affigned to them in 1791; and though it were even thought fit to adopt the arrangement then made, the Solicitors fhould have certainly been precluded from receiving any additional allowances for preparing the Regulation Bills, fuch allow- ances have however not only been made to the prefent Solicitor of Excife, who was appointed to his office fince the Union, but alfo in fome inftances to the Solicitor of Cuftoms, notwithftanding the compensation already mentioned to have been granted to him for the lofs of fuch emoluments. But to pay the Solicitors at the fame rate for each Regulation Bill as one of the Law Officers, feems not lefs objeCtionable than the payment it- lelf, efpecially when the amount is augmented by the expence attending a number of confutations. In fome inftances, however, both Money and Regulation Bills ftill continue to be prepared in England, without being fubmitted to the confideration of the Law Officers here, while many of them, after having been fo prepared, at an expence that cannot be inconliderable, are transmitted to the refpeCtive Revenue Boards in Ire- land, and in confequence Law Charges are incurred, as we are informed, to an equal amount as if fuch Bills had been originally prepared in this Country. As it is evident that all Money and Regulation Bills muft be principally prepared under the direction of the Chancellor of the Exche quer, and a confiderable expence unavoidably incurred in affording him, when in England, legal and financial affiftance ; it follows, that in pro- portion to the number of Bills prepared there without being tranfmitted to this Country, will be the faviug of the expenditure of each Depart- ment on that account. Such Bills as are merely intended to continue Laws that are only of a temporary duration only, need not be tranfmitted to Ireland, nor perhaps the Money Bills as they are now framed. If, how- ever, it fhould be thought neceffary at any time to lay thefe latter Bills before Counfel, there does not leem to be any reafon for allowing on that account a greater Fee than in the cafe of a Regulation Bill; but as the refpeCtive Boards, aided by their principal Officers, may be prefumed moft capable of forming a juft opinion on the expediency of introducing new regulations, whetherfor collecting any branch of the public Revenue, or altering an exifting fvftem, they ought, in our opinions, on every luch occafion to be confulted and advifed with, and the Bills intended to be prepared for efFeCting fuch meafures fubmitted to the confideration of Counfel in this Country; but we bv no means conceive it neceffary to incur the expence of employing the Crown Lawyers in fuch cafes, the Board's Counfel, being from their experience in the details of the Re- venue Laws fully competent, and in moft inftances more fo than any other, to direCt the mode in which the Bills fhould be framed. In pre- paring the Bills that are fubmitted to Counfel, it will be neceffary to employ the Solicitors, who may be paid for their trouble, according to a fixed and reafonable rate in each cafe as it arifes. What . thefe payments might 91 Appendix, In"' 64 6c 65. Appendix, N°' 66& 6p.
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