Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1784/1785
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1784 to 25th March 1785
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1784 to 25th March 1785 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1784 | 177,760 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| 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 | 792,316 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen Manufactures | 452 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage | 6,122 | 13 | 8 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 668 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| 1,692 | 9 | 3 | |||||||
| Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 6,646 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Stamps | 26,427 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Post Office | 1,922 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 5,579 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 1,311 | 4 | 4 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Cork and Dublin | 904 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 22,862 | 12 | 10 | ||||||
| Earl of Northington's additional salary as Lord Lieutenant, repaid by him | 950 | 17 | 11 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid, etc. | 13,207 | 16 | 8 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 10l. premium, and interest at 4l. per cent from Midsummer 1784, issued in exchange for Treasury Bills, per 23 adn 24 George III, c.2 | 14,076 | 18 | 6 | |||||
| Raised by issue of Treasury Bills, with interest at 4l. 11s. 3d. per cent per annum, including 138,900l. (Irish) issued in exchange for Bills unexchanged for 4l. per cent Loan Debentures, at Midsummer 1784 | 335,907 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1784/1785: | 1,408,809 | 13 | 2 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1784 to 25th March 1785 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent | 35,702 | 6 | 10 | |||||
| Premium of exchanging Treasury Bills for Loan Debentures | 1,407 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 22,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in Dublin | 7,315 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| payable in London | 36,304 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 27,451 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 124,447 | 4 | 10 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 78,415 | 0 | 5 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Trustees of Linen Manufacture | 4,802 | 4 | 0 | ||||
| Tillage | 6,324 | 12 | 5 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 1,565 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation | 668 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 6,646 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 1,753 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 79,317 | 13 | 2 | ||||||
| Prisage | 3,806 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Arrears of Prizes of Lottery, 1782 and 1783 | 5,695 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Management of Lottery | 253 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 3,184 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Bounties on Hempen and Linen Manufactures | 18,461 | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Bounties on Sale of Irish Manufactures | 13,846 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 1,298 | 19 | 7 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 4,615 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Building Public Record Offices | 2,769 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital and Workhouse | 4,615 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| St. Patrick's Hospital | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Hibernian Marine Society | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Finishing Killurine Church, County Wexford | 230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Completing Kilkenny College | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Building Rathfarnham Church | 369 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Completing Circular Road, Dublin | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Navigation from Lough Erne to Woodford Lake | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Pier at Liscanor | 553 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Improvement of Cork Harbour | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Improvement of Navigation of River Boyne | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Building Smelting House, at Ballymurtagh, County Wicklow | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Rebuilding Church of St. Nicholas Without, Dublin | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Erecting Steam Engine at Tyrone Collieries | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin Harbour | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Expenses of Auditing Grants for Public Works, etc. | 190 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 46,729 | 13 | 9 | ||||
| All other army services | 444,455 | 0 | 10 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 9,225 | 17 | 6 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 1,746 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Advances | Advance for promoting Manufactures at Prosperous, County Kildare | 23,076 | 18 | 5 | |||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off 4l. per cent Debentures | 47,935 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills, including 15,250l. (Irish) exchanged for 4l. per cent Debentures, and 138,900l. exchanged for New Bills | 142,507 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1785 | 186,505 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1784/1785: | 1,408,809 | 13 | 2 | ||||||