Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1756/1757
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1756 to 25th March 1757
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1756 to 25th March 1757 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1756 | 418,312 | 11 | 7 | ||||||
| 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, and Taxes under Management of Excise | 482,391 | 6 | 8 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 8,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||
| to Cambric | 396 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 5,687 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 1,393 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| 1,030 | 3 | 1 | |||||||
| Poundage of additional Duties | 3,230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 8 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 788 | 15 | 1 | |||||
| Imprest Money repaid by the Corporation for Inland Navigations, being the Balances on several Grants to them by Parliament and King's Letters (appropriated to Tillage) | 40,834 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1756/1757: | 962,382 | 3 | 9 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1756 to 25th March 1757 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 374 | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 47,518 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 42,806 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | To Linen | 8,088 | 16 | 3 | ||||
| To Cambric | 555 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| To Tillage, etc. | 7,772 | 12 | 0 | ||||||
| To Lagan Navigation | 1,393 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 332 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 56,497 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Bounty Linen | 3,692 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Inland Navigation | 28,430 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Essex Bridge, Dublin | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Wall, South of Liffey | 2,854 | 17 | 6 | ||||||
| Rebuilding Churches | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Officers of House of Commons | 36 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 45,340 | 18 | 3 | ||||
| All other army services | 407,281 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 34,305 | 7 | 0 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 5,316 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures, per 15 George II, c.2 and 19 George II, c.3 | 5,907 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1757 | 261,107 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1756/1757: | 962,382 | 3 | 9 | ||||||