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 family, utterly unprovided for. The act for uppreing this clas of offices did not however pas till 1798 on account of regulations in contemplation for improving the management of the revenue of Cutoms at which time there had fallen in 50, of the annual value of 13,320l. That management in truth derived great advantage from the uppreion of the decription of offices here noticed, as the poeors of them, holding by patents, conceived themelves amenable only to the Treaury or the King, and ometimes formally diclaimed any reponibility to the Commiioners of the Cutoms, to the manifet inconvenience, if not to the los, of the revenue.

In 1789 upon a trong repreentation from the Commiioners of Excie of the utter inadequacy of the alaries of the officers in their department to their very moderate maintenance, epecially having in view the great trut unavoidably repoed in