Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1779/1780
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1779 to 25th March 1780
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1779 to 25th March 1780 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1779 | 124,517 | 16 | 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 | 504,476 | 13 | 3 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 352 | 5 | 10 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage, etc. | 6,460 | 8 | 8 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 323 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 977 | 2 | 10 | |||||||
| Stamps | 11,879 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 9,910 | 8 | 1 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 344 | 0 | 8 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 482 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid (including Poundage Fees and Pells Fees) | 21,208 | 13 | 6 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Lottery Loan, 1780, in part of 200,000l. (Irish), per 19 & 20 George III, c.2 with Prizes of 210,000l., 4 per Debentures, from Midsummer 1780 | 134,995 | 7 | 9 | |||||
| Raised by issue of Treasury Bills, at 3d. per cent, per diem | 96,384 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1779/1780: | 912,312 | 9 | 0 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1779 to 25th March 1780 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 36,468 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in Dublin | 7,354 | 14 | 7 | |||||
| payable in London | 33,437 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 82,222 | 8 | 9 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 80,468 | 11 | 0 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Trustees of Linen Manufacture | 536 | 15 | 8 | ||||
| Tillage | 14,744 | 8 | 11 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 830 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation | 323 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 752 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 6,209 | 16 | 7 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 2,953 | 16 | 11 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 2,547 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Bounties on Hempen and Linen Manufactures | 23,076 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| Dublin Society | 8,279 | 2 | 11 | ||||||
| Dublin Ballast Office Wall | 461 | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Poor of Dublin | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Improvement of Donaghadee Harbour | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 2,854 | 17 | 7 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Officers of the House of Commons | 3,235 | 1 | 1 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 35,840 | 7 | 0 | ||||
| All other army services | 419,205 | 6 | 7 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 50,040 | 7 | 7 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 19,794 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1780 | 78,828 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1779/1780: | 912,312 | 9 | 0 | ||||||