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Debate on Civil List Pensions IN the House of Commons on December 19, 1837, Mr. Rice, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, moved that the Civil List Bill be read a third time. To this, Mr. Grote, the historian, then M.P. for the City of London, replied by moving an amendment that the clause empowering Her Majesty to grant a certain sum [ £1,200] annually should be struck out. He maintained that pensions ought no longer to be assigned at the mere arbitrary and irresponsible will of the Sovereign. The proper distribution of these involved a great public duty, and the House should take them under its control.
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Science News a Century Ago. Nature 140, 1072 (1937). https://doi.org/10.1038/1401072a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1401072a0