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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1825 edition. Excerpt: ...the collection of their light-money?--The commission has been from five to twenty-five per cent. When I speak of what they are paid, I know more from public accounts, than I do from private; but I believe one clerk, a few years back, in the Custom-house of the port of London, received above 3,000. a year commission j I have stated that publicly, and I have heard from his particular friend, that he was even in the habit of lending money, by which his predecessor, a friend of his, made a considerable fortune. Do you mean to say, that balances are allowed to remain in the hands of the collector?--That I do not know; when this person died, in the latter part of the war, the lights were divided to different people, which I think at this time might be very easily collected by one person, and much of the expense saved. Are you in possession of any facts that you deem material, as connected with the subjects to which your examination has been directed, that you can communicate to the Committee?--I conceive that in regard to going into any trivial facts of the money matters of the Trinity Corporation, that is, the last part of the subject, I conceive that for the good of this country in all its shipping concerns, a revision of that Corporation to its original principles would do away all those complaints we now have, with respect to shipping and navigation, and prevent such subjects being brought before the House of Commons, where they cannot be supposed to be generally understood. In your opinion, uniting the management of the Cinque Port pilots with the Trinity-house pilots, would be beneficial?--I conceive one of the great evils attending the pilotage at present, is, that the Prime Minister of this country (of whom no man entertains a higher...
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