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13 March 1810
By a scrutiny into the Alienation Office a discovery
is made of eight sinecures yielding to the eight Sinecurists
altogether a neat amount of £1,4 a year.
Here was so much labour, which of which it can not be said that
it was ill employed. B
But of a sum of £1,400 odd or taking the gross sum
a sum of £1,600 odd is worth enquiring about scrutinizing into in this view
how much more worth the like labour is for example
a sum of £33,000 odd? £23,000 odd?
In this case is Such is the case with the sum of £23,733 stated
in Article 178 (England) in the amount of the deductions
to be made from the £33,478 which constitutes the gross
amount of the most lucrative of Lord Arden's three connected sinecures.
Of The word deductions takes no long time to write: but in
this single word is any sufficient account given of so large
a sum of public money as £23,000 odd?
Of the component parts of those deductions in this
Report no account for any thing that appears being having been
called for, no account is any where to be found.
Identifier: | JB/147/382/001 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 147.
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