41. The king paid for his construction projects by private means and from his civil list income. 42. In 1853 a pension of ?5 a year was granted to him from the civil list . 43. Queen Victoria awarded her a Civil List pension and she retired to a private life in Liverpool. 44. Retiring from the Commons after the session of 1823, he was appointed auditor of the Civil List . 45. One of the first reforms introduced by the new regime was the Civil List in June 1923. 46. Arnault Laporte was in charge of the Civil List and he collaborated with both Montmorin and Mirabeau. 47. Plantation owners who controlled the voting of the taxes disrupted administration by refusing to vote the civil list . 48. The Civil List , as the royal financial settlement is called, pays for staff wages and other official expenses. 49. Her standing allowed her the rare luxury of being granted a pension from the Civil List in 1825. 50. The reserve was then used to make up the shortfall in the Civil List during the subsequent decade.
