CIVIL LIST. An annual allowance granted to the sovereign and the members of the royal family in constitutional monarchies, where the Parliament has obtained control eef the) purse. In England clown to 1660, the entire expenses of government, civil and military. were defrayed out of what was called the 'Royal Revenue.' This revenue. which arose partly from Crown lands and partly from other sources, remained for a long period after the Conquest at the disposal of the Crown; and even after supplies were voted by Parliament, the specific mode of their ex penditure continued to he free from Parliamen tary control. After the accession of William I1L, a distinction was drawn between the military and naval expenditure, which was henceforth voted by Parliament annually, and the civil list proper, which included the maintenance of the royal household, the salaries tit the judges, am bassadors, and such great officers of State, and such miscellaneous disbursements as the secret service money and pensions. The Civil List was fixed at 1600,000. Under William IV., all sala ries were transferred from the Civil List to the National Budget, and the royal grant placed at £510,000. Upon the accession of Victoria, the
hereditary revenues of the Crown Were consoli dated with the national domains, in lieu of Which the sovereign was allowed an annual sti pend of £355,000, to be devoted solely to the support of the royal household and the honor and dignity of the Crown. The British monarch also enjoys the income from the Duchy of Lancaster, varying from f.50,000 to 160.000 annually. The on the Civil List for the benefit of the royal family amount to £168,000. In all the countries of Continental Europe, with the ex ception of Russia and Turkey, the sovereign and the members of the royal family are provided for by a civil list, generally in proportion to the value of the royal possessions which they may have ceded to the The ine(une of Euro pean monarchs ranges front $300.000 in the case of the of Denmark to $4.000.000, which represents the allowance made the King of Prus sia.