APPENDIX I.

to prepare the returns actually rendered to us within
any reasonable time.

Returns have been obtained, in a more or less com-
plete form, from all the following departments of the
civil service, viz. :—

Colonial Land and Emigration.

Charitable Donations and Bequests (Ireland).
Consolidated Office of Writs.

Court of Relief of Insolvent Debtors.
Exchequer.

General Register Office, England and Wales.
General Register Office, Dublin.

* Namely, "Whether the deductions taken under the Act of “1834 are more than adequate to meet the charge under the

"Act for this class of Civil Servants."

We find that several of the returns are not com-
plete, and we of course have been only able to deal with
them as we found them. If more time could have been
allowed for investigating the minute details involved
in the inquiry, it is probable that some difference in
the results might appear; but having regard to the
very large number of cases embraced in the mass of
schedules delivered to us, and to the time that would
have been indispensable for the verification of each
particular statement, we have been content to rely
upon the deductions that we believed could safely be
drawn from what was before us; and we may state our
conviction that any alteration in the main conclusion
we had to arrive at would not be influenced materially
by the special verifications alluded to.

It is proper, however, for our own justification to
say, that we have made a most laborious arrangement
of the facts communicated to us; and as there are
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many collateral results which we consider it must be
of great interest to the Commissioners to possess, we
beg to annex several tables embracing the following
results:-

First, a classification of the facts deduced from
Return No. 1, which contains a list of all the per-
sons now employed in the civil service; the total
number given being 15,219. This return may,
therefore, we think, be fairly thought to present for
our purposes a sufficient view of the whole civil service
of the country. The classification exhibits the num-
ber of persons who were, on the 1st of January 1857,
employed in the civil service at each year of age,
showing the aggregate and also the average salary
paid to persons of every age, and the aggregate
deduction to which they would have been liable
under the Act of 1834.

Separate lists are given for those persons whose
salaries did not exceed 100l. per annum, and of those
whose salaries did exceed that amount (App. A. and B.).
At the foot of each account is stated the unimportant
number of cases wherein the ages were not given in
the returns. These lists have again been classified,
so as to exhibit the numbers in each decade of life,
with the aggregate and the average salaries applicable
to the several decades (App. C. and D.).

A still further arrangement of the facts in the
Return No. 1 has been made, to determine the average
salary paid to the civil servants for each year of ser-
vice, keeping distinct, as in the former tables, the
salaries which exceed 100l. per annum from those
-LL da not avgood that amount (Ann. E. and F.).

departments as new appointments. Inasmuch as their
service, so far as respects superannuation claims,
would, of course, date from their original appointments,
they ought not properly to have been included at all
in the Return No. 2, and we have consequently left
them out in our classification. It is not improbable
that like cases have been passed over unobserved from
our not having anything to direct our minds especially
to them.

There has been a considerable diversity in the
manner of filling up Return No. 2 in the different
departments, which has made the labour very great
to reduce them to any uniform arrangement, and great
care has been needed to extract from them the real
facts of the cases.

From a careful classification of the Returns No. 2,
it appears that during the ten years over which the
Returns extend, the Government would by the aban-
donment of contributions have been benefited to the
extent of about 73,6201., or 7,3621. per annum, in-
cluding compound interest at the rate of 3 per cent.,
if all the persons who left the service under the con-
ditions mentioned in these Returns had been subject
to the superannuation deductions of 24 or 5 per cent.
respectively.

This abandonment of about 7,3627 per annum,
being about 63 per cent. on the computed gross
amount of annual contributions as set forth in page
14 of this report [see the fifth paragraph of the other
column on this page] may therefore be added to the
106,9437., showing that the total effective contributions
of the civil service might ultimately have obtained

App. I.]

INTO THE OPERATION OF THE SUPERANNUATION ACT.

9

20,602

81'036

21,047

259

81'494

1,177

78'467

35

21,090

252

83 690

67

740

61.667

36

21,321

263

81 068

68

456

5

91 200

23,031

269

85 617

69

628

8

78.500

90'000

16,274

47

15,339

. 184

83 364

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APPENDIX B.