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Two adjutants to the major-general... 1,000 Forty colonels..... 40,000 100 captains of horse, at L500 a man... 50,000 300 captains of foot, at L300 a man... 90,000 100 cornets, at L100 a man.... 10,000 300 ensigns, at L50 a man.... 15,000 800 Quartermasters, Sergeants, Trumpeters, Drummers, 20,000 10,000 horse, at 2s 6d per day each... 470,000 30,000 foot, at 1s per day each.... 500,000 Chirurgeons... 400 40,000 auxiliaries, amounting to within a little as much... 1,100,000 The charge of mounting 20,000 horse.. 300,000 The train of artillery, holding a 3d to the whole 900,000 Sum total L3,514,400 Arms and ammunition are not reckoned, as those which are furnished out of the store or arsenal of Emporium: nor wastage, as that which goes upon the account of the fleet, maintained by the customs; which customs, through the care of the Council for Trade and growth of traffic, were long since improved to about L1,000,000 revenue. The house being thus informed of a state of war, the commissioners brought in-- THE STATE OF THE TREASURY THIS PRESENT YEAR, BEING THE ONE-AND-FORTIETH OF THE COMMONWEALTH Received from the one-and-twentieth of the commonwealth: By L700,000 a year in bank, with the product of the sum rising.............. L16,000,000 Expended from the one-and-twentieth of this commonwealth: Imprimis, for the addition of arms for 100,000 men to the arsenal, or tower of Emporium......... L1,000,000 For the storing of the same with artillery... 300,000 For the storing of the same with ammunition... 200,000 For beautifying the cities, parks, gardens, public walks, and places for recreation of Emporium and Hiera, with public buildings, aqueducts, statues, and fountains, etc...... 1,500,000 Extraordinary embassies... 150,000 Sum........ L3,150,000 Remaining in the Treasury, the salaries of the Exchequer being defalked....... L12,000,000 By comparison of which accounts if a war with an army
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