Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1786/1787
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1786 to 25th March 1787
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1786 to 25th March 1787 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1786 | 245,650 | 12 | 2 | ||||||
| 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 | 952,231 | 0 | 1 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage | 3,976 | 5 | 2 | ||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 569 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| to North-west Fisheries | 9 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| 6,000 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 34 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Stamps | 29,876 | 6 | 4 | ||||||
| Post Office | 13,016 | 17 | 11 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 5,823 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 1,191 | 18 | 3 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 798 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 23,355 | 2 | 10 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid, etc. | 2,066 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1786, in full of 165,330l. (Irish) per 26 George III, c.2 | 152,612 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1787, in part of 200,000l. (Irish) per 27 George III, c.2 | 36,923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by 4l. per cent Loan Debentures, from Lady-day 1785, and by Short Annuities from Christmas 1785, to complete 150,000l. (Irish) per 25 George III, c.2 | 21,138 | 9 | 3 | |||||
| Raised by 4l. per cent Debentures, from Midsummer 1786, in part of 183,700l. (Irish) per 26 George III, c.2 | 33,913 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Raised by 3.5l. per cent Debentures, from Midsummer 1787, in part of 200,000l. (Irish) per 27 George III, c.2 | 18,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Raised by Treasury Bills, at 4l. 11s. 4d. per cent per annum | 2,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Raised by Treasury Bills, at 3l. 16s per cent per annum | 9,230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1786/1787: | 1,559,417 | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1786 to 25th March 1787 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent | 35,957 | 18 | 2 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 22,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 40,061 | 10 | 9 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 7,159 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Short Annuities | 2,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Interest of Treasury Bills | 32,272 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 141,772 | 11 | 3 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 41,096 | 8 | 10 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Protestant Schools | 34 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| Lagan Navigation | 569 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 6,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 1,476 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Prisage | 2,854 | 17 | 6 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 32,138 | 2 | 9 | ||||||
| Arrears of Lottery Prizes, 1782 and 1783 | 424 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Prizes of Lottery, 1785 | 145,440 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Management of Lottery, 1785 | 2,870 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Discount on Contributions to Lottery, 1785 | 15 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | County Infirmaries | 3,023 | 1 | 7 | |||||
| Bounties on Growth of Flax and Linen Manufactures | 19,615 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| Bounties on Home Sale of Irish Manufactures | 18,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Navigation of Lough Swilly | 3,923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Towards Building Public Offices | 5,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Paving Dublin (out of Duty on Carriages) | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 679 | 12 | 0 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| House of Industry, Dublin | 7,938 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Protestant Charter Schools | 8,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital and Workhouse | 4,615 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Hibernian Marine Society | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Auditing Grants for Public Works | 335 | 0 | 8 | ||||||
| Inspector of Prisons | 138 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Salaries of Officers of House of Commons, and other Expenses, including Printing | 10,429 | 4 | 11 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 66,108 | 13 | 10 | ||||
| All other army services | 466,584 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 17,721 | 4 | 6 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 19,558 | 17 | 11 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 169,800 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1787 | 212,108 | 19 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1786/1787: | 1,559,417 | 15 | 1 | ||||||