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 open. The reduction then effected was to take place upon the death of the poeors.

Thee three offices were of the annual value of 5500l., which, added to thoe in the Civil Lit and Exchequer, and the patent inecure employments in the Cutoms, abolutely unconnected with the collection of the duties except in two or three caes, make the reduction as under:

To thee reductions of expence and influence, ariing from what was done with repect to offices, hould however be oppoed the new etablihments which have been made, and the new offices created within the fame period, from the neceities of the public ervice.

The buines of taking up tranports and conducting the whole of the ervice (which during the American war had been principally managed by the Navy Board, but in ome intances had been per-