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CONTENTS.

CIVIL LIST AND PENSION LIST...

I. Allowance to the Sovereign

Explanatory Details-Lord Chamberlain's Department

Lord Steward's Department

Master of the Horse's Department

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II. Allowances to the branches of the Royal Family

III. Pensions taken out of the Post-office and Excise Revenues, in their

progress to the Exchequer

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IV. Annual Compensation Allowances for useless Offices abolished

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XIII. The Unemployed Officers of the Army

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Timber; Excise Licences; Soap

Corn; Bricks; Currants and Raisins; Hops; Silks ;
Post-horse Duties; Butter; Candles and Tallow
Cheese; Glass and Coals; Miscellaneous

THE ARMY, ORDNANCE, COMMISSARIAT, NAVY, COLONIES...

I. Introductory Remarks

I. Numerical Strength and Cost of the Effective Army

III. Divisional Expenditure in the Army, Ordnance, and Navy...

IV. Particulars of the Daily Pay of the Army

V. Intermediate Observations

VI. The Staff in Canada ...

VIII. Pay of the Ordnance Departments

X. The Army Clothing; Major-General Sir William Napier's attack on

the Association, and their reply

XI. The War-office Clerks retired from Service

XII. The Retired Officers of the Army

THE NATIONAL BUDGET FOR 1849

Report of Public Meeting at Liverpool, 20th December, 1848

Address of Robertson Gladstone, Esq., President of the Association

Report of the Council of the Association to the Meeting

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Tobacco; Sugar and Molasses; Wine

Paper; Coffee

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Letter of Robertson Gladstone, Esq., in reply to Sir William Napier...

X. The Home Staff

Mr. Cobden's Letter and Scheme of the National Budget...
Resolution proposed by Lawrence Heyworth, Esq., M.P...
Resolution proposed by Francis Boult, Esq.

THE WOODS, FORESTS, AND ESTATES, OF THE CROWN

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THE NAVY

I. Ship Building and Engine Making

II. Ship Building

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III. Curious disclosures in the Committee on the Navy Estimates

IV. Naval Stores-The Royal Forests

V. The Repairs and Alterations of Ships originally malconstructed

Ditto

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VII. Steam Ships and their Engines

VIII.

Ditto

ditto

ditto

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IX. Expenses and Services of Ships in Ordinary

X. Ships condemned and broken up during the 21 years ending 1848

SPEECH OF SIR WILLIAM MOLESWORTH, BART., M.P., in the House of

Commons, on Tuesday, 25th July, 1848, ON COLONIAL EXPENDITURE AND

GOVERNMENT

Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and his Vice-Regal Court

Public Buildings and Irish Public Works

Salaries and Expenses of the House of Commons and the Government

Offices

Superannuation Allowances

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EXPENDITURE OF THE STATE, AND TAXATION OF THE PEOPLE

Speech of Mr. John Smith at Public Meeting of the Association,

21st March, 1849

Address by the Council to the Tenant Farmers of the United Kingdom

Slave Trade Abolition Expenditure ...

II. The Tobacco Trade and the Revenue Cruisers

III. The Necessity of Direct Taxation further exemplified by the

Smuggling of Tobacco...

V. Indirect Taxation leads to Crime, and the loss of Fifty per Cent. of

Revenue on Manufactured Silks ...

VI. The Indirect Tax upon a Commodity, such as Tea, withdraws

Capital from productive employment

X. The Tea Duty in relation to the social comfort and morals of the

Working Classes

XI How Indirect Taxation and Smuggling are the Antagonists of

Free Commerce and Free Navigation

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XII. How Indirect Taxation and Smuggling are the Antagonists of

Free Commerce and Free Navigation-(continued)

XIV. Indirect Taxation further condemned by the operation of the

Timber Duties

XV. The Construction of Fishing Boats-a Supplementary Section on

the evil operation of the Timber Duties

XVI. The Timber Duties as they affect House Building

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DIRECT AND INDIRECT TAXATION

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XVII. The Duties on Bricks and Windows

XVIII. On the evil operation of the Window Duty as regards Public

Health

XIX. Indirect Taxation-Its evil influences exemplified in the Duties

on Coffee and Chicory

XX. Indirect Taxation-Its evil effects on the Sugar Trade

XXI. Indirect Taxation-Its evils further exemplified by the Taxes on

Paper, Newspapers, and Advertisements

XXII. The Duty on Soap

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XXVI. Protective Duties on Cheese, Butter, Clover Seeds, Timber, &c.,
with Illustrations of Revenue Injustice

XXVII. Licenses; Duties on Horses, Carriages, Servants, &c.
XXVIII. Taxes on Landed Property

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XXX. On the encouragement of Smuggling and Dishonesty offered by our

present Revenue System

On the encouragement of Smuggling and Dishonesty offered by our

present Revenue System-(continued)

XXXI. Cost of Indirect Taxation

J. S. Buckingham, with opinions of Dr. Paley and John Stuart

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Plans of Direct Taxation Reviewed and Concluded

THE LAWS FOR THE PROTECTION AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF INVENTIONS
SPEECH OF MR. EDWARD BRODRIBB at Public Meeting of the Association,
22nd Nov., 1849

Propounded in the Prize Essay of the National Confederation

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HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE FISCAL SYSTEM

I. The Ancient and Ordinary Revenues of the Crown

Ditto

ditto

II. Personal Service rendered for Fees in Land

III. Tenures of Land-(concluded)

IV. Taxes levied for the year 991 to 1399.

VII. Taxes levied and Debt contracted from 1688 to 1702-to the

VIII. Taxes levied and Debt contracted from 1702, accession of Anne,

to 1714

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IX. The Scottish revenue, from the earliest recorded times to the

Union with England

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