The house having resolved itself into a committee of the whole house, to whom it was referred to consider of granting salaries to such persons as should be appointed commissioners to carry into execution any act of this session of parliament for the examination of the accounts of the expenditure of the public money in the West Indies, and to their secretaries, officers, and clerks, and of defraying the incidental expences attending the same; upon the motion of Mr. Vansittart, it was agreed, "That there be issued and paid, out of the consolidated fund of Great Britain, an annual salary, not exceeding 1500l. to the commissioner who shall be first named to carry into execution any act of this session for the examination of the accounts of the expenditure of the public money in the West Indies; and to each of the other commissioners an annual salary not exceeding 1000l.;and when any of the said commissioners shall be sent abroad, he shall be allowed such additional salary as the lords commissioners of the treasury shall think proper, not exceeding 500l.; and that the said lords commissioners be authorised to allow, out of the said consolidated fund, such salaries to the secretaries, officers, and clerks, to the said commissioners, as they shall think proper; and also reasonable sums of money for the incidental charges of the said commissioners."