Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1747/1748
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1747 to 25th March 1748
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1747 to 25th March 1748 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1747 | 79,122 | 17 | 6 | ||||||
| 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 | 468,770 | 10 | 8 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen Manufacture | 11,760 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage and Navigation | 4,407 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| to Cambric Manufacture | 2,298 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| 351 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
| Poundage of additional Duties | 2,030 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 2,810 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 466 | 17 | 11 | |||||
| Other Receipts | Raised by Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures, at 4 per cent, in further part of 70,000l (Irish) per 19 George II, c.3 | 13,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1747/1748: | 585,865 | 4 | 9 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1747 to 25th March 1748 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 13,567 | 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 | 34,861 | 7 | 11 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 41,638 | 16 | 3 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Linen Manufacture | 6,661 | 7 | 6 | ||||
| Tillage and Navigation | 4,858 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
| Cambric Manufacture | 2,215 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 1,015 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 332 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 5,524 | 18 | 3 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Linen Bounty | 3,692 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Building Church at Dublin Barracks | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Officers of the House of Commons | 1,584 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 6,918 | 10 | 7 | ||||
| All other army services | 352,732 | 12 | 10 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 3,188 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 22,039 | 4 | 11 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1748 | 84,571 | 17 | 5 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1747/1748: | 585,865 | 4 | 9 | ||||||