Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1783/1784
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1783 to 25th March 1784
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1783 to 25th March 1784 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1783 | 236,037 | 11 | 10 | ||||||
| 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 | 852,621 | 8 | 6 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen Manufactures | 4,786 | 19 | 9 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage | 6,250 | 16 | 9 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 495 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| 1,058 | 14 | 0 | |||||||
| Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 6,784 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Stamps, including Lottery Licences | 24,872 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 15,305 | 15 | 6 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 877 | 0 | 2 | |||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 22,378 | 11 | 0 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid, etc. | 7,379 | 5 | 3 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1783, to complete 160,000l. (Irish) per Act 23 & 24 George III, c.2 | 71,058 | 9 | 2 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent, from Christmas 1782, to complete 260,000l. (Irish) per 19 & 20 George III, c.10 | 21,346 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Raised by issue of Treasury Bills at 4l. 11s. 3d. per cent per annum | 252,553 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1783/1784: | 1,523,806 | 15 | 6 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1783 to 25th March 1784 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 45,411 | 0 | 11 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland, half year's Annuity, to Christmas 1783, in lieu of intererst on 600,000l. (Irish) Loan Debentures cancelled | 11,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in Dublin | 6,847 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| payable in London | 41,361 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 22,512 | 8 | 4 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 110,095 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 125,740 | 9 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Trustees of Linen Manufacture | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Tillage | 7,185 | 5 | 7 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 1,089 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation | 495 | 5 | 10 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 6,784 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 1,033 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Prisage | 2,854 | 17 | 6 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 48,324 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Prizes of Lottery, 1783 | 6,433 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Prizes of Lottery, 1782 | 139,504 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Discount on Contributions to Lottery, 1783 | 1,584 | 19 | 5 | ||||||
| Management of Lottery | 2,436 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 2,815 | 7 | 9 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 1,834 | 2 | 11 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 6,375 | 17 | 10 | ||||||
| Board of First Fruits, for Building Churches | 2,683 | 11 | 9 | ||||||
| Hibernian School | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Bounties on Linen and Hempen Manufactures | 24,821 | 3 | 10 | ||||||
| Salaries of Officers of House of Commons, and other Expenses, including Printing | 19,193 | 17 | 3 | ||||||
| Protestant Charter Schools | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Completing Kilkenny College | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Dublin House of Industry | 2,769 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| J. Smith and others, for completing Machinery | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 39,931 | 13 | 10 | ||||
| All other army services | 417,864 | 8 | 9 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 8,660 | 2 | 8 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 22,528 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 203,776 | 18 | 5 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1784 | 177,760 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1783/1784: | 1,523,788 | 15 | 6 | ||||||