certificate of accounts depending in the office of the auditor of the impreft, are now under our confideration. We have examined the Right Honourable Earl Temple, reprefentative of the late George Grenville, efq. the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Barrington; the Right Hon. Lord Viscount Howe; Sir Gilbert Elliot, Baronet, reprefentatives of the late Sir Gilbert Elliot, Baronet; and the Right Hon. Welbore Ellis; and we are now collecting fuch other information as may enable us to report upon the balances refpectively in their hands. In the execution of the truft vefted in us, we have proceeded with as much expedition as we found confiftent with the difficulty aud importance of the objects before us, and an exact and impartial attention to the interefts of the public, and the rights of individuals. A commiffion of accounts, to the extent and for the purposes expreffed in the act, is not an ordinary inftitution; and we have been obliged to content ourselves with the fuggeftions of our own understandings, unaffifted either by the lights of our ancestors or the experience of cotemporaries. A reference to the minutes of our proceedings, will, if called for, fhew that we have at leaft been diligent and perfevering. An Account of the Grofs and Nett Produce of the LAND-TAX, for the laf Four Years as far as the fame can be made up, viz. from the Year 1774 to the Year 1777, inclusive, distinguishing each Year ; within the Divifion of James Weft, Efq. one of the Auditors of the Court of Exchequer. Counties. 1774. 35. per pound. Grofs charge. Nett produce. L £. s. d. 20,839 9 30,632 19 62 43 67,049 8 10 24,038 14 63 65,244 8 35,478 14 10 31,712 0 4 4를 London, Westminster 1,736,122 3 7 Office for Taxes, February the 29th, 1780 — This account was received from James Weft, Efq. one of the auditors of the Court of Exchequer.—It could not be made up to a later period, as there are still arrears outstanding in the country for 1778. Cr. Rigby, George Blount, J. Eames, G. Heathcote. 25,148 15 10 24,471 12 6 1,784,108 8 8 1,734,112 7 34 2009 16 4 |