The True State of the National Finances, with Remedial Suggestions

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Simpkin, Marshall, & Company, 1842 - 340 sider

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Side 78 - An Act to authorize the Issue of Exchequer Bills, and the Advance of Money out of the Consolidated Fund, to a limited Amount, for the carrying on of Public Works and Fisheries in the United Kingdom, and Employment of the Poor in Great Britain, in manner therein mentioned...
Side 272 - ... of. Thirdly, That all offices which bring more charge than proportional advantage to the state ; that all offices which may be engrafted on others, uniting and simplifying their duties, ought in the first case to be taken away, and, in the second, to be consolidated.
Side 52 - The Speaker of the house of commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Master of the Rolls, the Governor and Deputy Governor of the Bank of England, and the AccountantGeneral of the High Court of Chancery, were persons who, from their several situations, he should think highly proper to be of the number.
Side 327 - Expenditure thereout defrayed by the several Revenue Departments), and of the Actual Issues or Payments within the same Period, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Redemption of Funded or paying off Unfunded Debt, and of the Advances and Re-payments for Local Works, &c.
Side 274 - If there is any one eminent criterion, which above all the rest, distinguishes a wise government from an administration weak and improvident, it is this; — " well to know the best time and manner of yielding what it is impossible to keep.
Side 171 - That it is the bounden duty of the responsible advisers of the crown to recommend to his majesty for grants of pensions on the civil list such persons only as have just claims on the royal beneficence, or who, by their personal services to the crown, by the performance of duties to the public, or by their useful discoveries in science, and attainments in literature and the arts, have merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign, and the gratitude of their country.
Side 321 - WISH; and 1 have no hesitation in saying, that from every consideration which 1 have been able to give to this great question, that for many years has occupied my mind, and from every day's experience to the present hour, I am more and more convinced, that the restoring the right of VOTING universally to EVERY MAN, not incapacitated by nature for want of reason, or by law for the commission of crimes, together with ANNUAL ELECTIONS, is the only Reform that can be EFFECTUAL and PERMANENT.
Side 192 - Commissioners appointed to enquire into the State and condition of the Woods, Forests, and Land Revenues of the Crown, and to sell or alienate Fee Farm and other Unimproveable Rents.
Side 214 - Fourth (chapter seventyfour), "for the abolition of fines and recoveries, and " for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance...

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