Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1740/1741
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1740 to 25th March 1741
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1740 to 25th March 1741 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1740 | 11,508 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| 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 | 416,937 | 19 | 2 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen Manufacture | 12,084 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage and Navigation | 3,293 | 19 | 8 | ||||||
| Poundage of additional Duties | 2,492 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 4,711 | 17 | 5 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casual Revenue | 1,147 | 7 | 9 | |||||
| Money repaid by John Pratt, late Deputy Vice Treasurer | 267 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Imprest Money reapid | 301 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| Other Receipts | Repayment of Advance | 461 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| Raised under Vote of Credit, Session 1739 | 9,230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1740/1741: | 462,437 | 4 | 9 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1740 to 25th March 1741 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest on Loan of Debentures at 5 per cent | 11,323 | 16 | 11 | |||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 30,775 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 31,369 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Linen Manufacture | 13,360 | 6 | 10 | ||||
| Tillage | 3,717 | 7 | 11 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 332 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 9,414 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Harbour of Ballycastle | 1,903 | 5 | 0 | |||||
| Salaries, etc. of Officers of the House of Commons | 1,469 | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Bounty on Linen Manufacture | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Cambric Manufacture, Dundalk | 1,237 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 17,628 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| All other army services | 298,395 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 12,966 | 6 | 7 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 5,534 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures, per 5 George II, c.2 | 8,307 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1741 | 12,393 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1740/1741: | 462,437 | 4 | 9 | ||||||