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Page 21 [2] §.7. Observations on § 7 [In such number as to his Majesty may seem meet]
[] <add>Number of Commissioners - Fixing or limiting the number or confining it ac by Statute may be
attended with inconvenience. It seems difficult to say
before hand how much time the business of this new
created Office may come to occupy: and though if no
division of the business is allowed, increase in the
number of the persons taking a part in it will
tends, it is true, rather to retard than to accelerate the progress
of it; yet but, if the quantity of the business required made
it it requisite , means might probably be found of making
a division of that sort without inconvenience.
These will be are matters of experience and ex matters
for experiment: and the power latitude necessary
for the making of such experiments should not be withholden
from the executive government.

[3]

Perhaps Possibly it might be better to still to pass over
in silence what concerns total numbers - number for a quorum
Board - Times of Attendance and Salaries: because
in that case all these several points would fall
of themselves (it would seem) within the discretion
of the Crown: there state the Precedents as is the case
it is believed in the instance of the two oldest Commissions for the
collecting of the Revenue, viz: the Customs and Excise.

[3] In Page 21. §. 7. [What
number less than the
whole number]
If the total number be left to the Crown, so ought
the number necessary to constitute a quorum for this or
that or all purposes: because the larger the total number,
the larger the Quorum may be. Giving this power
to the Crown once for all may save a multitude of
tedious repetitions in the Act such as the said Commissioners
and any two of them - the said Commmissioners and the
major part of them.

Precedents. Precedents. In the Tax Office three out of the
seven Commissioners form a quorum: as is stated in
the 8th Report of the Committee of Finance, p. 3: and this
not by Act of Parliament, nor by the tenor of that Commission
but by the "practice of the Office."

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