Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1778/1779
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1778 to 25th March 1779
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1778 to 25th March 1779 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1778 | 66,763 | 10 | 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 | 539,795 | 16 | 2 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 634 | 12 | 0 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 5,699 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 738 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| 1,238 | 6 | 2 | |||||||
| 5 | 19 | 4 | |||||||
| Stamps | 12,348 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 8,732 | 11 | 3 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 626 | 15 | 4 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 810 | 9 | 9 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 21,561 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 4 per cent, to complete 166,000l. (Irish) per Act 19 & 20 George III, c.2, Interest to commence from Christmas 1777 | 62,169 | 4 | 8 | |||||
| Raised by Tontine Life Annuities at 7 1/2 per cent, per 19 & 20 George III, c.2 in full of 300,000l. (Irish) | 276,923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1778/1779: | 998,047 | 7 | 5 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1778 to 25th March 1779 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 36,629 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in Dublin | 7,378 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| payable in London | 31,019 | 11 | 1 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 105,689 | 6 | 1 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 46,459 | 19 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | To Linen | 1,141 | 19 | 0 | ||||
| To Tillage | 3,540 | 2 | 9 | ||||||
| To Protestant Schools | 1,375 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| To Lagan Navigation | 738 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| To North West Whale Fishery | 5 | 19 | 4 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 830 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 10,480 | 12 | 8 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 2,907 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,153 | 13 | 7 | ||||||
| Bounties on Linen Manufactures | 10,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Harbours, Piers and Bridges | 1,850 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Dublin Improvements | 1,661 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Completing Four Courts, Marshalsea | 679 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Building New Gaol, Dublin | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Building Public Record Office | 2,769 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Officers of the House of Commons | 6,276 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Ballast Office Wall, Dublin | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Baths for use of the Poor of Dublin | 2,740 | 13 | 8 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 6,780 | 6 | 8 | ||||||
| House of Industry, Dublin | 1,903 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital | 3,616 | 3 | 7 | ||||||
| Expenses of Paymasters of Corn Premiums | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| J. Magee, for Services in the Brewing Trade | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 74,652 | 16 | 2 | ||||
| All other army services | 448,180 | 17 | 10 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 39,303 | 6 | 11 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 21,301 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 184 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1779 | 124,517 | 16 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1778/1779: | 998,047 | 7 | 5 | ||||||