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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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iW Appendix, N* 64. ( D.) ( E.) Appendix, N° 65. ' tf> 0 ( EO ^ Ireland.) — Eighth REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS [ Excite example of profufion in the Law expenditure, but occafioned, to the ex- tent' of the Cofts incurred in preparing additional Briefs, a greater charge againft - the Public, " than was requilite to give him a fum equal to that which he. appears annually to have received. Much cxpence might alfo be faved by the Board's interpofmg to prevent unneceflary references to Counfel; and to take away the temptation that might be . differed by motives of intereft to multiply thefe references ( which when a fyftem has been long relaxed, will uneonfcioufly operate on minds , other wifecor reft) we propofe that a fixed Salary fhould be given to the . Solicitors, to compenfate them for their fervices in all cafes, except proceedings in the Law Courts, and the preparation of Money or Regula- tion Bills; their Law Bills of Cofts, however, continuing to be paid as hitherto, only requiring that they Ihould be firft taxed by the proper • Officer of the Court in which fuch Cofts had been incurred. We like- wife recommend, that the . duties attached to the refpeftive offices of Solicitor of the King's Rents and of the Forfeited Eftates, both of which ought 011 the firft vacancy to be abolifhed, fhould be performed by the Solicitor of the Board of Excife, to whofe management the Revenue arifnig from the Forfeited Eftates ought to be transferred, as- belonging more properly to that Department than to the Cuftoms. . As we fuppofe - that no additional charge would be occafioned by affigning fixed Salaries to the Solicitors, the faving that will arife from the different regulations we have propoled, may in round numbers be thus ftated. In the charges on Money and Regulation Bills - jT. 3,73o — —^ By the Regulation Bills relating to each Department being prepared by one Counfel only, 011 an average of the expence incurred on; that account in two • years, ending 5th January 1808 - - 624 By affigning one Counfel to tratifaft the ordinary Law bufinefs of each Department, and difcontinuing to employ the Attorney General on ordinary occafions J' 794 C 8,148 — Appendix, N° 54. Apoendix. N° 88. Appendix, N* 89. - Appendix, N ® 90. Wefindamong the Excife IncidentExpencesafutnof£. 3,222.. os. 10 charged under the head of Compenlations and Gratuities. Several of thefe payments appear to have been made regularly every year to the fame perfons, on the ground, we prefume, of the fuppofed infufficiency of their Salaries. This would naturally call for obfervations fimilar to thofe which we have already made, refpefting the Salaries charged on Incidents, did we not conclude that the very liberal addition to the Salaries of the Officers in the Excife Department, will in future confine the payments, under the head of Compenfations and Gratuities, to cafes of extraordinary exertion and merit only. Obferving, however, amongft thefe payments one of £., 1,000. to John Croker, Elquire, Surveyor General of the Port and Diftria of Dublin, for extra official duty, and conceiving it incum- bent on us to make enquiry into the nature of the fervices which called foi fo cotifiderable a remuneration, we were furnifhed with the annexed copies of . a Memorial from Mr. Croker to the Lord Lieutenant, and of \ 1 * the
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