Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1785/1786
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1785 to 25th March 1786
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1785 to 25th March 1786 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1785 | 186,505 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| 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 | 869,528 | 18 | 4 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 849 | 4 | 8 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage | 3,610 | 13 | 5 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 3,759 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| to Fisheries | 513 | 17 | 5 | ||||||
| 428 | 7 | 0 | |||||||
| Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 6,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Stamps | 33,646 | 11 | 0 | ||||||
| Post Office | 13,862 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 12,790 | 19 | 11 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 776 | 16 | 1 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Cork and Dublin | 47 | 18 | 0 | ||||||
| Proportion of House Tax, Dublin, from Governors of Foundling Hospital | 738 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 26,937 | 10 | 7 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid, etc. | 6,272 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1785 | 147,692 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent, from Lady-day 1785, and by Short Annuities at 1l. 10s. per cent for 12 years, in part of 150,000l. (Irish) per 25 George III, c.2 | 117,323 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Raised by issue of Treasury Bills, with interest at 4l. 11s. 3d. per cent per annum | 196,615 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1785/1786: | 1,628,361 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1785 to 25th March 1786 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent | 37,961 | 15 | 0 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 22,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in Dublin | 6,863 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| payable in London | 42,661 | 10 | 10 | ||||||
| Interest of Treasury Bills | 34,382 | 9 | 10 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 128,839 | 11 | 6 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 101,869 | 16 | 5 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Trustees of Linen Manufacture | 1,301 | 10 | 9 | ||||
| Tillage | 2,316 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 560 | 17 | 1 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation | 513 | 17 | 5 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 6,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 886 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Prisage | 4,758 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 40,126 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Management of Lottery, 1785 | 3,828 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Discount on Contribution to Lottery, 1785 | 1,673 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| Arrears of Lottery Prizes | 932 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 2,976 | 18 | 6 | |||||
| Bounties on Hempen and Linen Manufactures | 27,138 | 15 | 9 | ||||||
| Bounties on Home Sale of Irish Manufactures | 26,769 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Bounties on Fisheries | 18,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 2,344 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| Erecting Quay at Dungarvan | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Board of First Fruits, for Building Churches | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin Harbour | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Paving Dublin (out of Duty on Carriages) | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Salaries and other Expenses of Officers of House of Commons, including Printing | 12,222 | 13 | 4 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 4,615 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Dublin House of Industry | 7,938 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Hibernian School | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Hibernian Marine Society | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital and Workhouse | 9,230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Protestant Charter Schools | 8,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Auditing Grants for Public Works, etc. | 311 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 59,240 | 5 | 8 | ||||
| All other army services | 505,396 | 17 | 8 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 22,315 | 15 | 0 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 19,638 | 1 | 11 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off 4l. per cent Loan Debentures | 52,043 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 151,823 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1786 | 245,650 | 12 | 2 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1785/1786: | 1,628,361 | 13 | 10 | ||||||