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Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1769/1770

from the Great Return of 1868/69

25th March 1769 to 25th March 1770

Receipts				British £
				25th March 1769 to 25th March 1770
				£	s.	d.
Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1769				36,975	0	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, and Taxes under Management of Excise			685,071	10	6
	Special Appropriated Duties	Customs, etc.	to Linen	1,694	15	7
			(including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc.	7,207	18	10
			to Cambric	9	4	7
			to Lagan Navigation	415	7	8
				1,262	5	2
	4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees			11,279	6	4
	Miscellaneous	Casualties		1,117	4	10
		Public Coal Yards		706	15	1
		Poundage Fees and Pells Fees		1,513	0	4
		Imprest Money repaid		4,748	13	5
		From great Britain, for Army purposes		6,044	9	0
Raised by the Creation of Debt	Raised by Loan Debentures, in part of 100,000l. (Irish), authorised by 7 George III, c.2; no further part was raised; interest at 3.5 per cent, to commence on 1st May 1769 (30,000l. Irish)			27,692	6	2
	Raised by ditto, in part of 100,000l. (Irish), at 4 per cent, per 9 George III, c.2; interest to commence on 24th June 1770 (50,000l. Irish)			46,153	16	11
TOTAL Receipts for 1769/1770:				831,891	14	11

Issues				British £
				25th March 1769 to 25th March 1770
				£	s.	d.
Interest, etc. of Public Debt	Interest of Loan Debentures			25,025	2	0
Civil Government	Civil List	Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum		61,469	19	6
		Pensions, including French Pensions		76,910	6	2
	Other Civil Expenditure	Out of Special Appropriated Duties	To Linen	2,045	19	11
			To Cambric	9	4	7
			To Tillage and Naviation	6,830	11	7
			To Lagan Navigation	415	7	9
			To Protestant Schools	1,153	16	11
		Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts		720	0	0
		Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters		3,063	15	2
		Parliamentary Grants	Bounty on Linen	12,923	2	10
			Inland Navigations	1,059	16	2
			Dublin Improvements	553	16	11
			Officers of the House of Commons	5,612	6	2
			Printing Public Accounts	103	7	8
			Hospitals	8,186	5	3
			Protestant Schools	3,806	10	1
			Public Coal Yards	1,443	3	2
			Preserving Corn on Stands	4,508	6	2
			Repairing Churches	685	3	5
Military Expenditure	Army Services	Army services by King's Letters		19,607	19	2
		All other army services		439,931	9	0
	Ordnance Services	Ordnance services by King's Letters		9,332	19	6
		All other ordnance services		12,671	13	2
Applied to the Reduction of Debt	Issued to pay off Loan Debentures, per 1 George III, c.5			15,230	15	5
Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1770				118,590	17	3
TOTAL Issues for 1769/1770:				831,891	14	11