Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1775/1776
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1775 to 25th March 1776
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1775 to 25th March 1776 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1775 | 61,095 | 0 | 4 | ||||||
| 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 | 680,687 | 3 | 4 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 581 | 10 | 9 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 5,901 | 19 | 1 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 598 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| 996 | 18 | 6 | |||||||
| Stamps | 8,219 | 12 | 1 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 13,047 | 4 | 10 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 675 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 487 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 2,120 | 11 | 8 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid | 968 | 19 | 3 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Tontine Life Annuities, at 6 per cent, from Christmas 1775, per 15 & 16 George III, c.2, in part of 175,000l. (Irish) | 32,307 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1775/1776: | 807,687 | 15 | 7 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1775 to 25th March 1776 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 31,321 | 5 | 1 | |||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 15,994 | 4 | 11 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 1,214 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 70,597 | 18 | 11 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 72,465 | 8 | 7 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | To Linen | 951 | 12 | 6 | ||||
| To Tillage, etc. | 2,811 | 16 | 7 | ||||||
| To Protestant Schools | 830 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| To Lagan Navigation | 598 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 900 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 8,234 | 4 | 9 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Bounty on Linen | 13,846 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Hospitals | 3,093 | 16 | 3 | ||||||
| House of Commons, Salaries of Officers and Expenses | 5,030 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 1,903 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Preserving Corn on Stands | 5,997 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,094 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Dublin Society, for Premiums | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Marshalsea's Prison | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Doctor Achmet's Public Baths | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 36,690 | 4 | 1 | ||||
| All other army services | 427,421 | 11 | 4 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 12,231 | 1 | 3 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 13,178 | 13 | 3 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures (15,092l., Irish, which redeemed 15,000l. Debt) | 13,931 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1776 | 59,964 | 14 | 7 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1775/1776: | 807,687 | 15 | 7 | ||||||