The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14

Estimates for Civil Services

Estimates for Civil Services.

Abstracts of Estimates for 1886-87, compared with the Grants for 1885-86.

Class I,—Public Works and Buildings.

Class II—Salaries and Expenses Op Civil Departments.

England.
House of Lords Offices In this case and the one below i: will be seen that a large part of the expense is recovered in fees from Private Bill business, &c	43,978	43,643	335	...	26,000	30,000
House of Commons Offices	52,493	51,772	721	...	20,000	30,000
Treasury, including Parliamentary Counsel.	58,718	60,445	...	1,727	...	...
Home Office and Subordinate Departments	95,632	96,181	...	649	3,775	3,800
Foreign Office	71,671	71,373	298	...	400	450
Colonial Offices	41,016	40,063	953	...	...	...
Privy Council Office and Subordinate Departments	46,816	46,883	...	67	1,400	1,600
Board of Trade and Subordinate Departments	106,817	106,178	639	...	2,520	2,520
Bankruptcy Department of the Hoard of Trade	242	1,164	...	922	...	...
Charity Commission (including Endowed Schools Department) A portion of this increase to be recouped from the London Parochial Charity Funds. Why should not the whole cost of such Commissions come out of the Properties receiving benefit or requiring administration? At present such property is not even taxed (see section on Mortmain).	38,465	39,007	...	542	...	...
Civil Service Commission	33,554	32,739	815	...	50	50
Exchequer and Audit Department	53,955	59,189	...	5,234	...	...
Friendly Societies Registry	8,207	8,122	85	...	800	800
Land Commission Board	22,111	23,021	...	910	8,000	9,426
Local Government Board Here again the increase is in the Grants in aid of Local Taxation: the charge lor medical officers and inspectors, to wit.	445,956	439,774	6,182	...	2,000	2,000
Lunacy Commission.	15,239	15,225	14	...	1,300	1,308
Mint, including Coinage	69,081	69,333	...	252	120,000	120,000
National Debt Office	14,796	14,700	96	...	260	250
Patent Office The increase is for additional examiners and indexers of Patents	53,303	45,997	7,306	...	5,400	4,200
Paymaster General's Office	26,190	26,274	...	84	...	...
Public Works Loan Commission	9,614	9,747	...	133	5,500	4,500
Record Office	21,326	22,288	...	962	...	...
Registrar General's Office	49,211	48,687	324	...	5,220	5,104
Stationery Office and Printing It is satisfactory to know that a Committee of Enquiry is looking into this overgrown and seriously large item, but reduction mainly hinges on the question as to whether Government letters and books are expected to contain twice as much paper as any other letters and books	561,424	561,997	...	573	81,800	83,250
Woods, Forests, &c., Office of	23,043	23,852	...	809	...	...
Works and Public Buildings, Office of	49,059	48,529	530	...	10	10
Mercantile Marine Fund, Grant in Aid	40,000	40,000	...	...	...	...
Secret Service Would such an item as this be tolerated in the accounts of any Municipal Corporation or other public body? And if not, why should it be necessary here? The taxpayer may depend upon it that any money taken down the back stairs in this way will not, in the long run, bring advantage to the public. But we feel convinced that many a serious abuse and gross job has screened itself from Parliament under such votes of secret carte blanche	50,000	50,000	...	...	...	...
Scotland.
Secretary for Scotland A newly created Department: hence the increased amount	8,893	1,622	7,271	...	...	...
Exchequer and other Offices	6,455	6,300	155	...	5,000	5,000
Fishery Board The £9,500 of Herring Brand fees go towards the reduction of this annually enlarging item	26,780	23,095	3,685	...	9,525	8,685
Lunacy Commission	5,982	5,969	13	...	420	400
Registrar General's Office	6,089	5,993	96	...	700	350
Board of Supervision	29,340	28,959	381	...	...	...

Ireland.
Lord Lieutenant's Household	7,516	7,469	47	...	600	600
Chief Secretary's Office	40,866	43,382	...	2,516	323	275
Charitable Donations and Bequests Office	2,019	2,152	...	133	42	42
Local Government Board It is estimated that £3,500 of the increase will be repaid to the Exchequer by Local Authorities	143,688	139,978	3,710	...	5,140	6,798
Public Works Office	50,559	56,111	...	5,552	7,000	12,000
Record Office	6,414	6,756	...	342	700	750
Registrar General's Office	16,126	16,126	...	...	240	240
Valuation and Boundary Survey	23,826	23,804	22	...	9,000	9,000
...	£2,476,470	2,464,099	33,678	21,307	323,125	348,408
	Net Increase		£12,371

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Class III.—Law and Justlce.

Service.	1886-87.	1885-86.	Compared with 1885-86		Cash Extra Receipts Payable to Exchequer.
		(Grants in Session of 1885.)	Increase.	Decrease.	1886-87.	1885-86.
England.	£	£	£	£	£	£
Law Charges	84,974	91,135	...	6,161	3,490	3,400
Criminal Prosecutions	159,277	164,135	...	4,858	40	40
^*Supreme Court of Judicature	422,219	421,673	546	...	63,200	59,200
Wreck Commission	13,430	13,530	...	100	50	50
^†Country Courts	428,804	436,087	...	7,283	410,000	390,000
Land Registry This money is simply thrown away on two officials to whom no work is brought	5,442	5,442	...	...	6	6
Revising Barristers, England	18,690	27,700	...	9,010	...	...
Police Courts (London and Sheerness)	15,565	15,320	245	...	11,500	11,500
^‡Metropolitan Police	559,730	544,840	14,890	...	...	...
Special Police A result of the Dynamite Outrages	36,000	38,000	...	2,000	...	...
Police, Counties and Boroughs (England and Wales)	853,311	846,306	7,005	...	...	...
Convict Establishments in England and the Colonies	346,644	381,374	...	34,730	16,300	17,500
Prisons, England About half a million of annual charge tor this and Scotch and Irish Prisons was in 1678 imposed on the taxpayer by the Beaconsfield Government, who thus lightened the burden of the Landed Gentry and added to tnose of the Income Tax payer	466,035	471,930	...	5,895	24,000	38,000
Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Great Britain	280,852	282,915	...	2,063	22,000	23,750
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum	29,282	29,417	...	135	753	753
Scotland.
Lord Advocate and Criminal Proceedings	64,356	64,093	263	...	...	...
Courts of Law and Justice	63,921	63,510	411	...	23,500	24,000
Register House Departments	36,862	36,472	390	...	100	...
Police, Counties and Burghs (Scotland)	148,037	144,037	4,000	...	...	...
Prisons, Scotland See remarks under the English Prisons item	108,876	113,201	...	4,325	7,170	5,800
Ireland.
Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions	74,041	79,206	...	6,165	600	123
Supreme Court of Judicature	88,861	91,222	...	2,361	1,000	1,500
Court of Bankruptcy	10,059	10,000	59	...	750	750
Admiralty Court Registry	1,285	1,285	...	...	...	...
Registry of Deeds	16,835-	17,510	...	675	...	...
Registry of Judgments	2,363	2,338	25	...	...	...
Land Commission	54,613	78,677	...	24,064	400	800
County Court Officers, &c.	96,687	99,316	...	2,629	1,130	1,100
Dublin Metropolitan Police (including Police Courts)	150,632	145,817	4,815	...	51,476	52,000
Constabulary	1,397,153	1,380,091	17,062	...	62,475	85,350
Prisons, Irelary See remarks under the English Prisons item	155,886	158,491	...	2,605	5,000	4,500
Reformatory and Industrial Schools	108,057	101,150	6,907	...	1,150	1,150
Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum	6,755	6,847	...	92	18	18
	£6,305,534	6,363,067	56,618	114,151	706,108	721,290
	Net Decrease.		£57,533

Class IV.—Education, Science, and Art.

Public Education The increase is for 37,000 more children in Elementary Schools	3,422,989	3,299,897	123,092	...	500	500
Science and Art Department The increase is for payments by results in the Departmental Schools. Some Irish and Scotch charges are included in this item	400,043	392,506	7,537	...	5,500	5,000
British Museum	162,285	161,333	952	...	1,850	1,700
National Gallery	8,607	8,964	...	357	1,000	900
National Portrait Gallery.	1,731	1,697	34	...	...	...
Learned Societies, &c Some Irish and Scotch charges are included in this item	24,400	21,400	3,000	...	...	...
London University.	13,152	12,484	668	...	10,000	9,000page 88
University Colleges, Wales	12,000	10,500	1,500	...	...	...
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition (Report)	4,337	4,627	...	290	...	...
Transit of Venus, 1882	...	110	...	110	...	...
Scotland.
Public Education The increase is for 8,000 more children in the Day Elementary Schools.	524,263	503,049	21,214	...	50	100
Universities, &c.	19,508	19,498	10	...	...	...
National Gallery.	2,100	2,100	...	...	...	...
Ireland.
Public Education £28,000 of this increase is in Results Fees to National School Teachers.	828,073	786,303	41,770	...	36,350	34,870
Teachers' Pension Office	2,145	2,013	132	...	...	...
Endowed Schools Commissioners	670	670	...	...	...	...
National Gallery.	2,501	2,501	...	...	50	50
Queen's Colleges	11,028	12,628	...	1,600	6,000	7,600
Royal Irish Academy.	2,520	2,000	520	...	...	...
Total of Class IV.	£5,442,352	5,244,280	200,429	2,357	61,300	59,720
	Net Increase		£198,072.

Class V.—Foreign and Colonial Services.

Diplomatic Services	232,010	233,245	...	1,235	10,000	10,000
Consular Services	186,486	189,940	...	3,454	...	...
Slave Trade Services	14,160	12,272	1,888	...	...	...
Suez Canal (British Directors)	2,405	2,425	...	20	4,000	4,000
Colonies. Grants in Aid	30,116	40,486	...	10,370	...	...
South Africa and St. Helena This large increase (£70,000) is for a Police Force and other expenses of Civil Administration in Bechuanaland	109,637	39,690	69,947	...	750	250
Subsidies to Telegraph Companies, &c. £19,000 increase for subsidizing the Eastern and Brazilian Cable Co. on account of their newly constructed Cable from St. Vincent to our possessions south of the Niger. The Subsidy is to go on for 20 years!	50,050	35,300	14,750	...	...	...
Cyprus, Grant in Aid	20,000	15,000	5,000	...	...	...
Total of Class V.	£644,864	568,358	91,585	15,079	14,750	14,250
	Net Increase.		£76,506

Class VI.—Non-Effective and Charitable Services.

(For full details of what the Pension System costs the country and of each separate item, see elsewhere in this book.)

England.
Superannuation and Retired Allowances For details of the increases see elsewhere. £154,692 a year is charged on the Consolidated Fund on account of certain Pensions and Compensation Allowances in the Civil, Judicial, Diplomatic, and Miscellaneous Services. Also £1,409,773 for Civil Pensions are charged in the Departmental Estimates of Army, Navy, and Revenue Departments, &c.	463,928	460,710	3,218	...	...	...
Merchant Seamen's Fund Pensions, &c.	19,200	20,600	...	1,400	50	80
Pauper Lunatics, England	495,000	478,500	16,500	...	...	...
Pauper Lunatics, Scotland.	87,000	84,500	2,500	...	...	...
Pauper Lunatics, Ireland The bulk of these three items (about half a million of money) was taken from the shoulders of the Landed Interest by the Beaconsfield Government and placed upon those of the general taxpayer	99,800	98,200	1,600	...	...	...
Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland	16,658	16,747	...	89	...	...
Savings Banks and Friendly Societies Deficiency	52,364	51,021	1,343	...	...	...
Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, Great	Britain	2,611	2,751	...	140	...	...
Miscellaneous Charitable and other Allowances, Ireland..	2,703	2,921	...	218	...	...
Total of Class VI	£1,239,264	1,215,950	25,161	1,847	50	80
	Net Increase		£23,314.

Class VII.—Miscellaneous.

Temporary Commissions	32,331	26,142	6,189	...	...	...
Miscellaneous Expenses	7,802	6,368	1,434	...	1,100	2,200
Repayment to Civil Contingencies Fund	...	350	...	350	...	...
Registration of Voters, England and Wales.	...	40,000	...	40,000	...	...
Registration of Voters, Scotland.	...	6,600	...	6,600	...	...
Registration of Voters, Ireland.	...	15,000	...	15,000	...	...
Total of Class VII	£40,133	94,460	7,623	61,950	1,100	2,200
	Decrease		£54,327

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Totals of the Several Classes.

(For Comparison with the Detailed Expenditure of preceding years see elsewhere.)

Class.	1886-87.	(Grants in Session of '85.)	Increase.	Decrease	1886-87.	1885-86.
		1885-86			Cash Extra Receipts.
	£	£	£	£	£	£
Class I.—Public Works and Buildings	1,860,074	1,864,686	...	4,612	46,667	56,527
Class II.—Salaries and Expenses of Civil Departments	2,476,470	2,464,099	12,371	...	323,125	343,408
Class III.—Law and Justice	6,305,534	6,363,067	...	57,533	706,108	721,290
Class IV.—Education, Science, and Art	5,442,352	5,244,280	198,072	...	61,300	59,720
Class V.—Foreign and Colonial Services	644,861	568,358	76,506	...	14,750	14,250
Class VI.—Non-Effective and Charitable Services	1,239,264	1,215,950	23,314	...	50	80
Class VII.—Miscellaneous	40,133	94,460	...	54,327	1,100	2,200
	£18,008,691	17,814,900	310,263	116,472	1,153,100	1,197,475
					Net Increase	£193,791.
					Cash Extra Receipts, Decrease	£44,375

	£
The Amount of the Estimates for Civil Services, 1885-86 was	17,686,475
Add.—Supplementary Estimates for Civil Services for 1885-86, included in the Appropriation Act, 1885	128,420
Variation between Amount as voted and Amount as shown in Parliamentary Paper....	70
	17,814,965
Deduct.—Transfer to Revenue Departments: Post Office....	65
	£17,814,900

Note.—The proceeds of sale of fee and other stamps received by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, in respect of the foregoing Departments, during the year ended 30th September, 1885, were as follows:—

	£
(Exclusive of £25,958 for Companies Registration, £412 for Newspaper Registration Fee Stamps, and £75 for Fees under Colonial Stock Act Services now transferred to the Inland Revenue Department, but including £80,122 for Patent Office Fee Stamps)	745,336
The proceeds for 1886-87 may be estimated at	745,000
which, added to the above Estimate of Cash Extra Receipts, viz.	1,153,100
Makes a Total Set-off of	£1,898,100

and gives £16,110,591 as the Estimate of net Expenditure for the Seven Classes in 1886-87.

^* The following Sums are charged on the Consolidated Fund:—

Salaries of Judges of the Queen's Bench Division	£78,000
Salaries of the Lord Chancellor, the Master of the Rolls, Lords Justices of Appeal and Judges of the Chancery Division	62,000
Salaries of the Judges of the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Division	10,000
Besides about £75,000 per annum for Pensions and Compensations.	£150,000

The following Sums were received by the Commissioners of Inland Revenue in the year ended 30th September, 1884, for Stamps on account of these Departments, viz:—

Great Seal Patent Office Fee Stamps (including Warrants)	£397	0	0
Judicature Fee Stamps	359,866	15	3
Bankruptcy Business	51,380	10	6
	£411,644	5	8

^† The sums of £85,200 per annum for Salaries, and £9,800 for Pensions of the Judges, are charged on the Consolidated Fund.

^‡ The sums of £34,800 per annum for Salaries of Magistrates, and £700 for Salary of Stipendiary Magistrate for Chatham and Sheerness, are charged upon the Consolidated Fund.

The Fees payable at the Metropolitan Police Courts are paid by means of Inland Revenue Stamps; in the year ended 30th September, 1884, the Commissioners of Inland Revenue received, from the sale of these stamps, £6,872 4s. 6d. The Fees payable at the Chatham and Sheerness Courts are accounted for as Cash Extra Receipts.

The Fines, Penalties, and unclaimed "Costs recovered" received during the year ended 30th September, 1884, and paid into the Exchequer, amounted at—

The Metropolitan Police Courts, to	£13,237	12	2
The Chatham and Sheerness Police Courts, including the Fees, to	331	18	5

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