An Address to the Public in Justification of the Conduct of the Author of the Pamphlet Entitled, Observations on Frauds Practised in the Collection O (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.1794 Excerpt: ... Salt Duties, with the letter I presented at the above time. Some observations on them are contained in part of my pamphlet entitled Observations on Frauds, fcc. from part of p. 9 to part of 24. The charges are fix in number.........' The first, The remissness of the officers in the discharge of their duty. The second, That officers have known of ships which have delivered over the quantity stated by the permit to have been shipped, and seized only a very small proportion of the surplus according to their duty, and suffered the revenue to be defrauded of the remainder, but to accomplish this they made a false entry, whereby the Commissioners of Salt Duties were deceived in a two fold degree; the one, by the real quantity delivered from the ship being concealed from them, and the other' by obtaining merit from the Commissioners by seizing a small quantity when they ought to have seized the Whole, instead of giving it to the importer, and thereby defrauding the revenue. These instances clearly prove that the officers impose on the Commissioners and their Secretary, and laugh at them, notwithstanding Mr. Mr. King has told me, that they have such a. check upon their officers, that they cannot deceive them i but upon my expostulating with him on the absurdity os such an idea, when he knew that there was not A person in the Office who had knowledge os any thing out of it, he acknowledged the truth of my observation, but said that Mr. Warren, and I think he mentioned a Mr. Williams, were Collectors in whom they could place great confidence; and said moreover, that they did the best they could: by which I presume, he meant that the Commissioners and these officers exerted themselves in fulfilling the trust reposed in them, as far as men could go. The third, that off...