|
| Charge. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
Arrears: remaining in the Accomptant's hands upon the end of his last Accompt |
5 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
depending upon sundry hackney coachmen in arrears for the rent of their licences and for the King's moiety of forfeitures |
725 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
730 |
0 |
0 |
Receipts: money arising under the Acts for licensing and regulating hackney coaches within the time of this Accompt:
for the rent of 800 hackney coach licences at 5s. each a week, payable monthly |
10,400 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
for the King's moiety of eight forfeitures at 2l. each |
8 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
for ditto of five forfeitures at 30s. each |
3 |
15 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
for ditto of eighteen forfeitures at 20s. each |
9 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
for ditto of seven forfeitures at 15s. each |
2 |
12 |
6 |
|
|
|
|
for ditto of 143 forfeitures at 10s. each |
35 |
15 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
10,459 |
2 |
6 |
money arising under the said Acts for licensing and regulating hackney chairs:
for the rent of 300 hackney chair licences at 10s. each per annum.
|
150 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
for the King's moiety of three forfeitures at 40s. each |
3 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
153 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
total charge and receipts |
|
|
|
£11,342 |
2 |
6 |
| Discharge. |
|
|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
Salaries: John Way, Thomas Sutton, More Molineux and John Idle, Commissioners, Charles Bernard and Wavell Smith ‘succeeding each other in the quallity of a Commissioner’, 500l.; Edward Wharton, Receiver, 62l.; Charles Bolton, clerk, 50l.; James Cook, housekeeper, 40l.; George Edes and Richard Cotton, messengers, 80l.; William Kempe, street keeper, and Edward Dickenson and Seymour Stillingfleet ‘succeeding each other as street keepers’, 70l.
|
802 |
0 |
0 |
|
Office rent: Mrs. Joyce Collins for the house in Surry Street in the Strand, 38l.; Peter Blaslow, Doctor in Physick, to complete the rent of a house at York Buildings, 7l.
|
45 |
0 |
0 |
|
incident charges: Treasury and Exchequer fees, solicitors' fees (John Pye, including damages awarded Ralph Short for a fine imposed on him by a messenger), office necessaries etc., an eight day ‘wall-nuther’ clock supplied by James de Fountaine, clockmaker, in exchange for an old spring clock, Thomas Foley for the Auditor's fee |
266 |
7 |
9 |
|
Officers' taxes |
|
|
|
60 |
3 |
0 |
|
(total for the charges of managing this revenue 1,173l. 10s. 9d.) |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
£ |
s. |
d. |
|
|
|
money paid into the Exchequer, by dates:
for the Duty on Hackney Coaches |
9,285 |
9 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
for the Duty on Hackney Chairs |
158 |
0 |
0 |
|
|
|
|
— |
9,443 |
9 |
3 |
|
|
|
|
— |
|
total payments and allowances |
|
|
|
£10,617 |
0 |
0 |
|
and so remains |
|
|
|
£725 |
2 |
6 |
|
whereof depending on several hackney and stage coachmen for arrears of rent and for the King's moiety of forfeitures |
725 |
0 |
0 |
|
and so the Accomptant is Indebted |
|
|
|
0 |
2 |
6 |
|
Declared 7 November 1718. |
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|
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