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1733–4
February 1.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
18. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Clayton, Sir Wm. Yonge.
The Taxes Commissioners' report of 26th ult. on Wm. Hartley's petition for 1,218l. 1s. for extras, &c. in making remittances as Receiver General, Bucks, read and agreed to.
The late Surveyor General Dr. Sayer's report of 1731, July 21, for renewing a lease of a messuage and lands, West Haddon, for the use of the school there being part of the possessions of the late dissolved Hospital of the Savoy, read and agreed to; the lessees not to be accountable for mediate profits since the expiration of the lease, they having been applied to the benefit of the school and the premises being much out of repair.
Order for a sign manual for 200l. to Arthur Collins as royal bounty.
Henry Crawley to be collector of Customs at Shoreham loco Samuel Frith, deceased, at the recommendation of the Duke of Richmond.
“Roger Mansuer is to be paid the like bounty of 20l. as he was paid last year, by Mr. Lowther.”
The Order of Council, dated 20 December, 1733, for the purchasing Agatha Campbell of Annapolis Royal's right to quit rents of 80 to 90l. per annum, from the inhabitants of mines, &c. and the claim or right of seigniory in Nova Scotia, read, and Col. Philips, Governor of Nova Scotia, being now here, is to let their Lordships know whether the arrears of quit rents have been paid by him according to the said order, and what the same amounted to, and also what may reasonably be paid to the said Agatha Campbell for the purchase aforesaid.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 241;
Letter Book XIX. p. 206.] |
| February 1. |
19. Treasury warrant to the Customs Commissioners for the removal to the Fleet of prisoners for great sums or great offences now in insecure gaols.
Prefixing:—Report of said Commissioners to the Treasury as to the escape of three smugglers from the county gaol of Essex charged with upwards of 22,000l.
[Customs Book XIII. pp. 453–4.] |
| February 2. |
20. Same to the Clerk of the Pipe or his deputy for a lease to Jane Lowther of a piece of ground in the Privy Garden, Whitehall, bounded on the north and east by waste ground in the said garden, south by a piece of garden ground of Mrs. Jane Lowther, and west by a road or passage leading from Charing Cross to Westminster Hall, for 31 years from 1750, August 2, at the rent of 2l. and a fine of 50l.: and of another piece of ground in the same bounded on the south by a passage leading from said Privy Garden to Channel Row for 33 years from same date at a rental of 3l. and fine of 50l.
Prefixing:—Particular in Latin, with memorandum of the latter mentioned piece, and constat of the former, and ratal of both particular and constat by T. Walker, Surveyor General.
[Crown Lease Book III. pp. 150–4.] |
| February 5. |
21. Articles of agreement between the Treasury and Matthew Woodford, of Southampton, for the victualling of the garrisons of Placentia and Annapolis Royal from the termination of the 12 months' notice given 1733, August 18, to the executors of the late Thos. Missing.
[Warrants not relating to money XXV. pp. 122–5.] |
| February 6. |
22. Report from John Conduitt to the Treasury, dated from the Mint Office, on the memorial of John Croker, chief engraver of the Mint. Former engravers had larger salaries than Croker, who has served as engraver since 1696. They had also an allowance for a filer to sink, file, and polish the dies. Recommends same for Croker. Further represents that “for the greater security of the public, there is a clerk of the irons and surveyor of the meltings appointed to watch the melter constantly the whole time that any bullion is melting, and to attend the graver when any dies are sinking, and to have a lock upon his press; but there is no particular check upon the moneyers' presses, though they are in daily use, and upon many accounts require the same constant inspection.” Proposes the constitution of a surveyor of the presses of the moneyers to inspect their presses during the coinage and to have a lock upon them, and to clean and polish the dies, &c. at a salary of 40l. Recommends Wm. Vaughan for said post. 2 pages.
Appending:—(a.) Croker's said petition, with order of reference, dated 1733–4, January 1. 1½ pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 14.] |
February 6.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
23. Present:—Mr.Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Clayton, Sir Wm. Yonge.
Widow Jett's petition read, concerning sundry books of accounts of her late husband in her custody, but belonging to the revenue. Their Lordships think same may be properly lodged in the Auditor of the Imprest's record rooms, and order the necessary warrant if there be a convenient place in said rooms for that purpose. The auditor to certify their Lordships as to a reasonable allowance to petitioner for preserving said books for 10 years past.
The Earl of Oxford's petition as guardian to the Duke of Leeds, read, for a grant of the hundreds of Bonestou, Moulesho, and Segelai, (“Dunstow, “Mulsoe,” “Seglow,”) co. Bucks, for securing quit rents to the value of 23l. 19s. 5d. belonging to the said Duke, and issuing out of the several townships within said hundreds. Referred to the Surveyor General to report a state of the said hundreds and the rents, royalties, privileges, and franchises belonging thereto.
Auditor Walpole's report of January 31 last, proposing payment of 150l. to John Grymes, receiver of quit rents in Virginia, for his expenses in forming a rent roll of said quit rents, and for an allowance of ½ per cent. to the merchant here for negotiating Grymes' bills of exchange from there, read and agreed to.
Order for Mr. Lowther to pay, out of the King's money in his hands, 50l. to Stephen Whatley, 20l. to Thos. Wells, and 10l. to Ann Whitehorn.
Mr. Pelham's memorial of this day, enclosing Sir Joseph Eyles's proposal for remitting subsistence to Minorca and Gibraltar, 1733–4, February 24 to April 24, read and agreed to as follows, the rates of exchange being certified to be as usual:—
13,500 dollars for Minorca, payable at sight in gold, at 55d. per dollar.
24,000 dollars for Gibraltar, payable at sight in gold, at 54½d. per dollar.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 242.] |
| February 9. |
24. Allan Whitefoord, Receiver General, Scotland, to [? John Scrope]. Concerning the defects of the laws for collecting, &c. the land tax in Scotland. Has drawn up, and forwards through Mr. Douglas, a memorial showing same. Requests that the matter may be laid before the Treasury for a speedy remedy in the method proposed or some other. Edinburgh, February 9, 1733–4. 1½ pages.
Enclosing:—(a.) Said memorial, giving a historical account of the institution of land tax in Scotland, the method of levying, and the difficulties in connexion with same, &c. 8½ pages.
[Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 15.] |
| February 13. |
25. J. Scrope to Mr. Popple, concerning the purchase money to be paid to Mrs. Agatha Campbell, widow, of Annapolis Royal, for certain quit rents and the extinguishment of a right of seigniory in the Province of Nova Scotia. The Treasury, in accordance with the order of the King in Council, grounded on a report from the Board of Trade, have inquired of Col. Phillips, Governor of Annapolis, who is now here, concerning arrears of said quit rents due to Mrs. Campbell, and as to a fair price for the purchase. Said Phillips is informed that Mrs. Campbell has but one-fourth part in the inheritance of the late Monsr. Latour, and doubts whether she can convey the whole. The Treasury therefore request the Board of Trade to reconsider the whole matter, adjust petitioner's right, and fix a reasonable sum for purchase. [Letter Book XIX. p. 208.] |
| February 21. |
26. Endorsement by the Treasury of the contract with the Bank of England for the circulation of Exchequer bills on malt, 1734, to the amount of 750,000l. with interest or premio at the rate of 3½ per cent. per annum.
[Warrant not relating to money XXV. pp. 126–7.] |
| February 25. |
27. Petition to the Treasury from the linendrapers of London. By Acts of 10 and 12 Queen Anne, several duties are laid on certain linens, calicos, silks, &c. with the proviso of the right to export same on giving bond for same not to be relanded. But there is no proviso in either of the said Acts for the delivering up or cancelling said bonds, either on the producing a certificate or any other proof of the landing of the said goods in any foreign parts. Pray leave for application to Parliament for a clause of such a nature. Referred to Customs Commissioners.
[Reference Book X. p. 29.] |
February 26.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
28. Present:—Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Sir Wm. Yonge.
Order for the Auditor of the Receipt to cause the plate used for Exchequer bills on land tax, 1733, to be adapted to Exchequer bills on land tax, 1734, and to print the same off with all expedition, the whole million being intended to be charged in bills thereupon.
Same for the issue to the Treasurer of the Ordnance of 30,000l. out of Exchequer bills on malt, 1734, for the part belonging to that office of 287,343l. 5s. 1d. voted for the deficiency of the grants, 1733.
The memorial of the Board of Works of January 29 last, relating to houses belonging to Mr. Blackerby, in Old Palace Yard, and proposed to be pulled down for the greater convenience of Members of Parliament ordered to be transmitted to Mr. Paxton to investigate the title with a view to the conveyance for 1,200l.
Wm. Stanley's petition to be receiver of land tax for 1734, read and referred to Taxes Commissioners.
Ann Jones's petition for arrears of her late husband's salary as conservator of the King's woods in Dean Forest, read and referred to Mr. Whitworth.
[Treasury Minute Book XXVII. p. 243;
Letter Book XIX. p. 212.] |
[After
February 26.] |
29. Two draft clauses partly similar for a proposed Act of Parliament to enable importers of Barbary and foreign copper to receive a drawback on re-exportation of same notwithstanding its having been in the meantime refined and changed in shape. 4 pages.
Appending:—(a. Report of the Commissioners of Customs, dated London, 1733, April 18, to the Treasury on the petition (f.) below of several merchants of London concerning debentures on Barbary copper imported, refined here and exported, and for which debentures are refused on the ground that the refining and casting same into plates has altered it, so that it is impossible to identify it with the copper imported. 3 pages.
(b. and c.) Previous reports, dated 1726, July 2, and 1727, April 21, from same to same on same. 6 pages.
(d. and e.) Two statements of opinion by the Attorney General Sir Philip Yorke, dated 1725, October 12, and 1726, May 31, on cases submitted concerning the above. 8 pages.
(f.) The petition referred to of the merchants of London to the Treasury, with order of reference, dated 1732, December 15. 1 large sheet.
(g.) An account of unsatisfied debentures for Barbary unwrought copper remaining in the searcher's office, 1733–4, February 21. 1 page.
[Treasury Board Papers CCLXXXV. No. 22.] |
| February 28. |
30. Report to the Treasury from the Excise Commissioners, London, on the proposal for preventing the running of Flemish hops. Have no objection to the laying of greater penalties to prevent that practice, and if a power were given to fix a mark or seal on all bags or packets of hops of English growth, and to seize all other, think it would be a very effectual stop. 1 page.
Appending:—(a.) Proposal as above by way of representation and complaint from the hop growers. 1 sheet. [Ibid, No. 24.] |
