The Military Forces of the Crown Volume 2; Their Administration and Government (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt: ...the organizing of the Militia, occupying 4 clerks. 1 Appendix CXLIX.. Vol. iii. of his Works (1840), p. 228; and 165 H. D. (3). p. 1091. Appendix CXXIV. - Note W W, Appendix. (3.) By transfer from Audit Office, for the examination of Non-Effective payments, and the Commissariat Cash and Store, Accounts, --23 clerks. (4.) By creation of a branch for the Ordnance Solicitor, owing to the increased business of the Consolidated Department, and the discontinuance of reference to the Treasury Solicitor by the Commissariat and old War Office branches, --4 clerks. (5.) By the forming of a Clothing Branch to take up the duties formerly entrusted to the Colonels of Regiments and Agents in supplying clothing and necessaries to the Army, which relieved the agents of labour and responsibility, but added to the War Department, --22 clerks. 27. If, therefore, in the opinion of the Duke of Wellington--"no bad judge and no bad administrator" (to cite the Kfrectlve words and opinion of Sir James Graham)--the work "UJjJJJJjJ only of the War and Ordnance Offices was too much, nPS8iblefor one Board of several Ministers to execute efficiently, what would be said by any good administrator of entrusting such a mass of work and of expenditure to one Secretary of State? 28. Take, for illustration, but one branch of the Ordnance business, viz., the Manufacturing Departments. Have mustn. not immense works and shops been suffered to grow tlon up under the Crown, in defiance of all the rules of political economy and sound financial administration. "When I look at the Army Estimates,1 I find (said Sir James Graham), " they have 12,000 men in day-pay." Is it possible that the control of the Secretary of State over such commercial operations can have been more...