The Board

An unnamed Crown board to which the Dover customs house answers and which posts its officers; the revenue service works alongside it. It has also proposed enlarging the pilots' roll and rebuilding the Beacon Rock light.

An authority the Dover customs officers fear would use a written inventory of their shed; the text does not explain it further.

Ties

• oversees the Dover customs house
• works alongside the revenue service
• has proposed changes to the Dover pilots' roll
• the Dover customs house answers to it

At the table

Slow and unresponsive: twice asked for the customs house's view on recording duty headings and got none; told the house its records were adequate; never answered the coroner's proposal to compare records; has held Coroner Capel's letter on pilotage for nine years unprinted. Proposed adding to the pilots' roll four times in a century; a pilot says the Board has long wanted the roll reduced to forty-one men in boats without their book but never said so aloud. Posts customs officers to Dover who then never rotate.