Certain provinces and certain Customhouses have been required to furnish an annual sum to the Board of Admiralty for its official expenditure. The Board now represents that several of these payments are in arrears for the past year, and in some cases for the two preceding years also, It refers to a regulation by which the Provincial Treasurers and Superintendents of Customs concerned should either receive some reward or be subject to a penalty, according as they have paid their subventions during the current year or not. It considers that no mention need be made of the sums received from the foreign customs four-tenths fund; but with this exception it furnishes lists showing which subventions have been received in full within the proper limit, ud which of them, are still owing.
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