Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1749/1750
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1749 to 25th March 1750
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1749 to 25th March 1750 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1749 | 202,967 | 5 | 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 | 615,498 | 16 | 0 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen Manufacture | 16,982 | 16 | 5 | ||||
| to Cambric Manufacture | 2,683 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 5,275 | 10 | 5 | ||||||
| 2,009 | 10 | 6 | |||||||
| Poundage of additional Duties | 2,822 | 14 | 9 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 3,216 | 11 | 4 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 1,118 | 8 | 2 | |||||
| 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 | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1749/1750: | 854,882 | 7 | 5 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1749 to 25th March 1750 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 14,835 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 35,141 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 41,441 | 18 | 2 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Linen Manufacture | 14,750 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Cambric Manufacture | 1,421 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Tillage and Navigation | 249 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 2,206 | 2 | 9 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 332 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 4,166 | 19 | 9 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Bounty, Linen | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Bounty, Hardware Manufacture | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Bounty, Paper Manufacture | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Officers of the House of Commons | 1,400 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 16,856 | 15 | 5 | ||||
| All other army services | 316,168 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 2,499 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 7,267 | 19 | 6 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures, per 5 George II, c.2 | 12,830 | 15 | 4 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1750 | 378,329 | 15 | 8 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1749/1750: | 854,882 | 7 | 5 | ||||||