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the crown. On their report was based the Civil List Act 1901, which established the new civil list. The system that the hereditary revenues should as before be paid into the exchequer and be part of the consolidated fund was maintained. The amount payable for the civil list was increased from L385,000 to L470,000. In the application of this sum the number of classes of expenditure to which separate amounts were to be appropriated was increased from five to six. The following was the new arrangement of classes:--1st class, Their Majesties' privy purse, L110,000; 2nd class, salaries of His Majesty's household and retired allowances, L125,800; 3rd class, expenses of His Majesty's household, L193,000; 4th class, works (the interior repair and decoration of Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle), L20,000; 5th class, royal bounty, alms and special services, L13,200; 6th class, unappropriated, L8000. The system relating to civil list pensions, established by the Civil List Act 1837, continued to apply, but the pensions were not regarded as chargeable on the sum paid for the civil list. The committee also advised that the mastership of the Buckhounds should not be continued; and the king, on the advice of his ministers, agreed to accept their recommendation. The maintenance of the royal hunt thus ceased to be a charge on the civil list. The annuities of L20,000 to the prince of Wales, of L10,000 to the princess of Wales, and of L18,000 to His Majesty's three daughters, were not included in the civil list, though they were conferred by the same act. Other grants made by special acts of parliament to members of the royal family were also excluded from it; these were L6000 to the princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, L6000 to the princess Louise (duchess of Argyll), L25,000 to the duke of Connaught, L6000 to the duchess of Albany, L6000 to the princess Beatrice (Henry of Battenberg), and L3000 to the duchess of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Figures in other countries. It may be interesting to compare with the British civil list the corresponding figures in other countries. These are as follows, the figures being those, for convenience, of 1905. Spain, L280,000, exclusive of allowances to members of the royal family; Portugal, L97,333, in addition to L1333 to the queen-consort--total grant to the royal family, L116,700; Italy, L602,000, from which was deducted L16,000 for the children of the deceased Prince Amede
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