Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1777/1778
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1777 to 25th March 1778
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1777 to 25th March 1778 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1777 | 59,131 | 13 | 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 | 598,839 | 8 | 8 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 784 | 12 | 4 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 7,063 | 16 | 3 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 738 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| 1,089 | 8 | 6 | |||||||
| Stamps | 12,626 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 11,719 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 870 | 12 | 2 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,034 | 9 | 6 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 23,572 | 17 | 4 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 4 per cent, in part of 166,000l. (Irish) per Act 17 & 18 George III, c.2, Interest to commence from Christmas 1777 | 91,061 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1777/1778: | 808,532 | 10 | 4 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1777 to 25th March 1778 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 31,138 | 1 | 9 | |||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in Dublin | 3,009 | 9 | 3 | |||||
| payable in London | 23,305 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 86,541 | 1 | 7 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 65,610 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | To Linen | 396 | 16 | 3 | ||||
| To Tillage | 5,489 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| To Protestant Schools | 969 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| To Lagan Navigation | 738 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 900 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 19,695 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 3,023 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,400 | 18 | 9 | ||||||
| Bounties on Linen Manufactures | 9,692 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Harbours, Piers and Bridges | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Dublin Improvements | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Building St. Patrick's Hospital | 2,719 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Completing the Four Courts Marshalsea | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Officers of the House of Commons | 5,788 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Dublin Society, for Premiums | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Ballast Office Wall, Dublin | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Baths for use of the Poor of Dublin | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 6,780 | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| Premium on Corn Stands | 264 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Towards Debt of Grand Canal | 692 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Workhouse and Foundling Hospital | 3,571 | 2 | 11 | ||||||
| Expenses of Paymasters of Corn Premiums | 1,938 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Publishing Drawings of Irish Roads | 276 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| Rebuilding Churches | 5,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Hibernian School | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Marine Society | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 43,375 | 5 | 6 | ||||
| All other army services | 375,353 | 11 | 9 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 15,521 | 6 | 10 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 15,485 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 92 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1778 | 66,763 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1777/1778: | 808,532 | 10 | 4 | ||||||