Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1739/1740
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1739 to 25th March 1740
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1739 to 25th March 1740 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1739 | 12,255 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| 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 | 387,458 | 16 | 11 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 7,339 | 5 | 1 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage and Navigation | 3,272 | 14 | 0 | ||||||
| Poundage of additional Duties | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 3,445 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casual Revenue | 559 | 8 | 0 | |||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1739/1740: | 416,638 | 10 | 3 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1739 to 25th March 1740 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest on Loan of Debentures at 5 per cent | 10,714 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 29,581 | 18 | 7 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 34,015 | 18 | 0 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Linen Manufacture | 12,061 | 17 | 0 | ||||
| Tillage | 3,270 | 12 | 8 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 332 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 3,372 | 2 | 10 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Officers of the House of Commons | 461 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| Cambric Manufacture, Dundalk | 761 | 6 | 0 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 22,698 | 8 | 4 | ||||
| All other army services | 269,215 | 2 | 10 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 9,270 | 15 | 5 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 4,296 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Advances | Trustees of Whale Fishery, to prosecute the discovery of a Whale Fishery on the West Coast | 461 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures, per 5 George II, c.2 | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1740 | 11,508 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1739/1740: | 416,638 | 10 | 3 | ||||||