Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1776/1777
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1776 to 25th March 1777
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1776 to 25th March 1777 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1776 | 59,964 | 14 | 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 | 768,058 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 1,149 | 15 | 5 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 8,121 | 10 | 2 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 880 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| 1,547 | 5 | 0 | |||||||
| 1,532 | 6 | 2 | |||||||
| Stamps | 11,974 | 11 | 9 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 21,529 | 17 | 10 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 1,390 | 17 | 1 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,247 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 27,527 | 9 | 6 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid | 31,974 | 3 | 11 | ||||||
| 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, to complete 175,000l. (Irish) | 129,230 | 15 | 5 | |||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1776/1777: | 1,066,129 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1776 to 25th March 1777 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 31,374 | 17 | 8 | |||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 20,500 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 2,820 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 112,181 | 11 | 1 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 122,040 | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | To Linen | 1,131 | 15 | 1 | ||||
| To Tillage, etc. | 7,301 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
| To Protestant Schools | 1,698 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| To Lagan Navigation | 880 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| To Whale Fishery | 1,532 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 720 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 22,849 | 19 | 5 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Bounty on Linen | 12,923 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Inland Navigations | 230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Harbours, Piers and Bridges | 2,123 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Dublin Improvements | 357 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of House of Commons | 3,415 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Hospitals | 9,905 | 15 | 7 | ||||||
| Printing Commons Journals | 1,283 | 14 | 8 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 7,613 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Preserving Corn on Stands | 6,679 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,181 | 17 | 11 | ||||||
| Dublin Society, for Premiums | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Marshalsea Prison | 2,030 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| T. Johnston, for Losses in endeavouring to improve the Breed of Cattle | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| B. Houghton for Public Services | 3,138 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Damages by Riotous Mob | 276 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 53,829 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| All other army services | 530,617 | 10 | 8 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 23,565 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 17,810 | 17 | 9 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 184 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1777 | 59,131 | 13 | 4 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1776/1777: | 1,066,129 | 10 | 6 | ||||||