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 performed by individuals on commiion to their own profit) had been found to interfere o eentially with the other duties of the former as to render it indipenibly neceary to eftlablih a Board for that purpoe in September 1794. In January 1796, the buines of Prioners of War was put under the direction of this new Board; and in 1805 the whole department of the Sick and Hurt was uppreed, and the duties transferred to it alo, which leaves the balance as follows:

The etablihment of a eparate Board for the Tranport ervice was trongly recommended o early as in 1788, by the Commiioners of Enquiry; and the advantages experienced from the adoption of it early in the war have mot fully jutified a compliance with that recommendation. Thee advantages are detailed at ome length in a paper of Rh