Excerpt from The System of National Finance Much that is not readily intelligible in our financial system is made clear by a word of explanation from those actually engaged in work ing it; and for explanations of the sort most kindly and helpfully given, I am in debt to many creditors. My thanks are specially due to Mr. F. D. Acland, m.p., formerly Financial Secretary of the War Office, and now Parliamentary Under Secretary of the Foreign Office; Sir Charles Harris, Assistant Financial Secretary of the War Office Mr. F. W. A. Clarke, Accountant and Comptroller General Of the Board of Customs and Excise; Mr. W. G. Turpin, Comptroller General of the National Debt Office; Mr. C. L. Davies, Assistant Paymaster General; Mr. V. W. Baddeley, c.b., Assistant Secretary to the Admiralty for Financial Duties; Mr. H. V. Reade, C. B., Principal of the Statistical Office at the Board of Customs and Excise; and Mr. F. W. Bartlett, Principal Clerk in the Pay Office. To the Officials Of the Bank of England I owe a debt in this respect that grows daily. What I have learnt from these is as much as it is good for a taxpayer to know and no more; and the explanations which I have received, given with the unfailing courtesy of the Civil Service, would. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.