Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1737/1738
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1737 to 25th March 1738
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1737 to 25th March 1738 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1737 | 13,246 | 18 | 10 | ||||||
| Net Receipts of Public Income, deducting Drawbacks, etc., and Charges of Collection and Management | Customs and Excise, including Quit Rents and other Revenue of the Crown Lands | 460,657 | 2 | 6 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 9,799 | 17 | 11 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage and Navigation | 3,453 | 19 | 10 | ||||||
| Poundage of additional Duties | 2,769 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 8,049 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casual Revenue | 383 | 7 | 6 | |||||
| Money repaid by John Pratt, late Deputy Vice Treasurer | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1737/1738: | 498,452 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1737 to 25th March 1738 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest on Loan of Debentures at 5 per cent | 11,146 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 33,156 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 51,293 | 17 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Linen Manufacture | 11,933 | 6 | 3 | ||||
| Tillage and Navigation | 1,637 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 332 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 5,439 | 19 | 11 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Officers of the House of Commons | 743 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Printing Public Accounts | 103 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 7,254 | 18 | 2 | ||||
| All other army services | 353,669 | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 2,072 | 18 | 6 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 4,734 | 9 | 11 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures, per 5 George II, c.2 | 9,230 | 15 | 5 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1738 | 5,704 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1737/1738: | 498,452 | 5 | 5 | ||||||