APPENDIX.

No. I.

CLAUSES OF MR. PITT'S BILL.

Referred to from p. 202.

Appointing Commiffioners to inquire into the fees, gratuities, perquifites, emoluments, which are, or have been lately, received in the several publick offices therein mentioned; to examine into any abuses which may exift in the fame, &c.

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ND be it further enacted, that it shall and

may be lawful to and for the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, and they are hereby impowered, authorized, and required, to examine upon oath (which oath they, or any two of them, are hereby authorized to administer) the several perfons, of all defcriptions, belonging to any of the offices or departments before mentioned, and all other perfons whom the said commiffioners, or any two of them, fhall think fit to examine, touching the business of each office or department, Y 2

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and the fees, gratuities, perquifites, and emoluments taken therein, and touching all other matters and things neceffary for the execution of the powers vefted in the faid commiffioners by this act; all which perfons are hereby required and directed punctually to attend the faid commiffioners, at fuch time and place as they, or any two of them, fhall appoint, and alfo to obferve and execute fuch orders and directions as the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, fhall make or give for the purposes before mentioned.

And be it enacted by the authority aforefaid, that the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, fhall be, and are hereby impowered to examine into any corrupt and fraudulent practices, or other misconduct, committed by any perfon or perfons concerned in the management of any of the offices or departments hereinbefore mentioned: and, for the better execution of this prefent act, the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, are hereby authorized to meet and fit, from time to time, in fuch place or places as they fhall find most convenient, with or without adjournment, and to fend their precept or precepts, under their hands and feals, for any perfon or perfons whatsoever, and for fuch books, papers, writings, or records, as they fhall judge necessary for their information, relating to any of the offices or departments hereinbefore mentioned; and all bailiffs, conftable, fheriffs, and other his majesty's officers, are

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hereby required to obey and execute fuch orders and precepts aforefaid, as fhall be fent to them or any of them by the faid commiffioners, or any two of them, touching the premises.

APPENDIX, No. 2.

Referred to from p. 208.

NABOB OF ARCOT'S DEBTS.

MR. GEORGE SMITH being asked, Whether the debts of the nabob of Arcot have increased fince he knew Madras? he said, Yes, they have. He distinguishes his debts into two forts; thofe contracted before the year 1766, and thofe contracted from that year to the year in which he left Madras.-Being asked, What he thinks is the original amount of the old debts? he faid, Between twenty-three and twenty-four lacks of pagodas, as well as he can recollect.—Being asked, What was the amount of that debt when he left Madras? he faid, Between four and five lacks of pagodas, as he understood.--Being asked, What was the amount of the new debt when he left Madras? he said, In November, 1777, that debt amounted, according to the nabob's own account, and published

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lifhed at Chipauk, his place of refidence, to fixty lacks of pagodas, independent of the old debt, on which debt of fixty lacks of pagodas, the nabob did agree to pay an intereft of twelve per cent. per annum.-Being asked, Whether this debt was approved of by the court of directors? he faid, He does not know it was.-Being afked, Whether the old debt was recognised by the court of directors? he said, Yes, it has been; and the court of directors have fent out repeated orders to the prefident and council of Madras, to enforce its recovery and payment.-Being afked, If the intereft upon the new debt is punctually paid? he faid, It was not during his refidence at Madras, from 1777 to 1779, in which period he thinks no more than five per cent. intereft was paid, in different dividends of two and one per cent.-Being asked, What is the ufual courfe taken by the nabob, concerning the arrears of intereft? he faid, Not having ever lent him monies himself, he cannot fully anfwer as to the mode of fettling the intereft with him.

Being asked, Whether he has reafon to believe the fixty lacks of pagodas was all principal money really and truly advanced to the nabob of Arcot, or a fictitious capital, made up of obligations given by him, where no money or goods were received, or which was increased by the uniting into it a greater intereft than the 12 per cent. expreffed to

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be due on the capital? he said, He has no reason to believe that the fum of fixty lacks of pagodas was lent in money or goods to the nabob, because that fum he thinks is of more value than all the money, goods, and chattels in the fettlement; but he does not know in what mode or manner this debt of the nabob's was incurred or accumulated. Being asked, Whether it was not a general and well-grounded opinion at Madras, that a great part of this fum was accumulated by obligations, and was for fervices performed or to be performed for the nabob? he said, He has heard that a part of this debt was given for the purposes mentioned in the above question, but he does not know that it was fo.-Being asked, Whether it was the general opinion of the fettlement? he faid, He cannot fay that it was the general opinion, but it was the opinion of a confiderable part of the fettlement. Being afked, Whether it was the declared opinion of those that were concerned in the debt, or those that were not? he said, It was the opinion of both parties, at leaft fuch of them as he converfed with.-Being asked, Whether he has reafon to believe that the intereft really paid by the nabob, upon obligations given, or money lent, did not frequently exceed 12 per cent.?-he faid, Prior to the first of August 1774, he had had reason to believe, that a higher intereft than 12 per cent. was paid by the nabob on monies lent to him;