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| Feb. 2. |
15. Account showing how the money given for the service of the year 1737 has been disposed of, distinguished under the several heads, up to 1737–8, February 2, and the parts thereof remaining unsatisfied with the deficiency of said grants for said year to meet said remains.
Total grants, 3,283,882l. 11s. 2¾d.; sums paid, 3,178,448l. 6s. 7½d.; remains to be paid, 105,434l. 4s. 7¼d.; residue of ways and means undisposed of, 77,112l. 19s. 7½d.; balance deficiency of grants, anno 1737, 28,321l. 4s. 11¾d. In duplicate. 2 sheets.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVII. No. 19.] |
| Feb. 3. |
16. Report to the Treasury from the Customs Commissioners, London, on the memorial of Micagah Perry, John Maynard and Edward Athawes, executors of William Dawkins, late of London, merchant, concerning verdicts against them relating to debentures on tobacco shipped for Spain and France, but landed in Ireland. 4 pages.
Appending:—(a.) Said memorial, with Treasury order of reference, dated 1737, September 28. 4 pages. [Ibid. No. 20.] |
| Feb. 4. |
17. Charles Carkesse to John Scrope, dated from the Custom House, London, concerning Samuel Hyde's intended application to Parliament to be relieved, touching certain tobacco debentures belonging to him and Bance and stopped at the Custom House. 2 pages.
Appending:—(a.) Copy of a memorandum, signed by Mr. Hyde, on his and Mr. Bance's memorial, 1736, November 3. ½ page.
(b.) Memorial from said Hyde to the Customs Commissioners concerning said bonds, and dated 1736–7, February 9.
Together with copy of the patent officers' report on said memorial. 2½pages. [Ibid. No. 21.] |
| Feb. 7. |
18. Treasury warrant to the Commissioners of Customs, London, approving the proposals, as below, made by said Commissioners.
Prefixing:—Memorial to the Treasury from said Commissioners. By a recent report of Mr. J'ans, who was appointed to inspect the ports of Milford, Lanelly and Swansea, it appears that the smack stationed at Milford for the guard of the coast from St. David's Head to Swansea has been of little service. Have therefore dismissed the Commander, Captain Philips, and the mate, Mark Scott. Finding Milford Haven sufficiently guarded, but a want of a further guard at the ports of Swansea and Llanelly, where great numbers of ships annually load coal and culm for France, Ireland, and coastways, and further run great quantities of tea, brandy, wine and other goods, propose to discontinue the present smack as drawing too much water to be of use to prevent this practice, and in place of it to appoint two decked vessels of about 25 tons each, with a Commander and seven hands each, one to be stationed at Whiteford in Swansea port for the guard of Caermarthen Bay to Tenby westward and the Mumbles eastward; the other to be stationed at Mumbles for the guard of Swansea Bay and the coast from Barry westward to the Nash point eastward, within which district great quantities of goods are run. Recommend names of men for the service and their wages. [Customs Book XIV. pp. 259–60.] |
| Feb. 14. |
19. Treasury warrant to Gilbert Fleming, Commissioner and Receiver of the moneys arising by the sale of lands in St. Christopher, confirming a list, as below, of small contracts for the purchase of said lands and rectifying small mistakes in other contracts.
Prefixing:—Certificate to the Treasury by said Fleming, dated 1737–8, February 1, of the purchasers of small quantities of lands in St. Christopher of below the value of 100l., with the situation of the same and the sum agreed upon therefor: all in continuation of a previous like certificate of 1735, October 16: as also of contractors forfeiting by non-payment.
[Crown Lease Book IV. pp. 377–81.] |
| Feb. 17. |
20. The Commissioners of Excise, London, to the Treasury, enclosing accounts as follow, viz.:—
(1) The gross and net produce of the duties on low wines, strong waters and all spirituous liquors from 1735, September 29, to 1736, Christmas, and from 1736, September 29, to 1737, Christmas, and of the duties on sweet wines 1737, June 24, to December 25.
(2) As in (a.) infra.
(3) As in (b.) infra.
(4) The number of dealers in coffee, tea and chocolate in the several collections and within the bills of mortality. 2 pages.
Appending:—(a.) An account, certified by the Commissioners of Excise and by Samuel Snelling, Accomptant General of same, of the gross and net produce of the inland duties and subsidies at the Custom House from 1734, December 25, to 1736, June 24, being for 1½ years before the passing of the abovesaid Act of 9 Geo. II., and also an account of the gross and net produce of the same duties and subsidies from 1736, June 24, to 1737, December 25, being for 1½ years after the passing of the abovesaid Act. In triplicate. 4 pages and 1 sheet.
(b.) Same, certified by same, of the quantity and value of coffee, tea and chocolate seized since the Act of 9 Geo. II. for indemnifying persons who had offended against the Customs and Excise laws, viz., from 1736, midsummer, to 1737, Christmas. (Total value sold, 34,342l. 7s. 1¾d., irrespective of amounts, detailed, remaining unsold.) In duplicate. 1 sheet and 1 page.
[Treasury Board Papers CCXCVII. No. 25.] |
Feb. 21.
Whitehall,
Treasury
Chambers. |
21. Present: Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Dodington, Lord Sundon, Mr. Winnington, Mr. Earle.
Order for the issue to the Cofferer of the Household of 8,000l., in further part for 1737, Michaelmas quarter.
“Mr. Jackson is to have 333l. 13s. 6¾d., remaining in the Exchequer of the late Queen's arrears, in further part of the debt owing to him from her said late Majesty, as he was her minister residing at Sweden.”
“Read a report from the Commissioners of the Customs, dated 17th February instant, on Edward Randolph's petition for compounding a debt to the Crown, which stands as now reduced at 10,027l. 11s. 2¾d. principal money. My Lords, upon consideration of the said report and of the variety of circumstances set forth therein, do adhere to the said Commissioners in their opinion that they could not be justified in reporting 50l. to be a reasonable composition for so large a debt.”
The memorial of the Paymaster of the Forces of the 6th instant, enclosing Sir Joseph Eyles's proposal for remitting subsistence money for Gibraltar and Minorca garrisons 1737–8, February 24, to 1738, April 24, read and agreed to as follows, the rates of exchange being certified to be as usual, viz.:— 15,350 dollars for Minorca, payable at sight in gold, at 55d. per dollar; 21,800 dollars for Gibraltar, payable at sight in gold, at 54½d. per dollar. [Treasury Minute Book XXVIII. p. 70.] |
| Feb. 21. |
22. Petition to the King from the Governor, Deputy Governor and Directors of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Pursuant to an Act of 5 Geo. I. for settling certain funds the proprietors of debts amounting to 248,550l. 0s. 9½d. sterling were incorporated by letters patent of 21 November, 11 Geo. I., by the name of the Equivalent Company. By further letters patents of 1727, May 21, the subscribers of the Equivalent Company were made a body corporate with power of banking within Scotland. In accordance therewith said proprietors subscribed 111,000l., and for some years carried on the trade and business of banking. The present capital not being sufficient an addition of 40,000l. making it 151,000l. in whole, is desirable. In view of the uncertainty as to the standing of the Bank in case of a redemption of the Equivalent pray a grant of letters patents under the Great Seal of Scotland to ratify and confirm their privileges and to remove all doubts concerning the subsisting of the said corporation in case of redemption by Parliament, and to authorise the Bank to increase its capital, as above; “also that the proprietors of the said sum of 111,000l. Equivalent stock may be empowered by authority of a General Court of the Proprietors to take up, acquit and discharge the public of the aforesaid sum, and to lay out the same in such way and on such security as the Directors with consent aforesaid shall judge safe, to the end that a sure and permanent fund may still subsist for the credit of the Bank and safety of such as deal with them.
With Treasury order of reference, dated 1737–8, February 21, to the Lord Advocate or Solicitor General in Scotland.
[North Britain Book XII. pp. 181–3.] |
