Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1787/1788
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1787 to 25th March 1788
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1787 to 25th March 1788 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1787 | 212,108 | 19 | 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 | 975,963 | 12 | 11 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen Manufacture | 8,062 | 0 | 3 | ||||
| (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage | 11,341 | 9 | 1 | ||||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 639 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Stamps, to Trinity College | 236 | 11 | 11 | ||||||
| Stamps | 45,308 | 12 | 11 | ||||||
| Post Office | 12,406 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 13,936 | 15 | 3 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 1,333 | 1 | 10 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 2,360 | 19 | 6 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 27,178 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid, etc. | 6,436 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1787, to complete 200,000l. (Irish) per 27 George III, c.2 | 147,692 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent, from Midsummer 1786, to complete 183,700l. (Irish) per 26 George III, c.2 | 135,655 | 7 | 9 | |||||
| Raised by Loan Debentures at 3.5l. per cent, from Midsummer 1787, in further part of 200,000l. (Irish) per 27 George III, c.2 | 120,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan Debentures at 4l. per cent from Midsummer 1787, as an Advance for Inland Navigation, per 27 George III, c.35 | 9,230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Raised by issue of Treasury Bills, at 3l. 16s per cent per annum | 83,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1787/1788: | 1,820,353 | 18 | 4 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1787 to 25th March 1788 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 52,934 | 13 | 0 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 22,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 36,138 | 9 | 3 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 6,809 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Short Annuities | 2,059 | 19 | 3 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 27,666 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 161,105 | 6 | 9 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 138,138 | 0 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Tillage | 13,851 | 16 | 5 | ||||
| Lagan Navigation | 639 | 5 | 5 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 1,476 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Prisage | 3,806 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 43,659 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Arrears of Lottery Prizes | 729 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Prizes of Lottery, 1786 | 149,833 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Management of Lotteries | 3,960 | 7 | 10 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous Supply Grants | Bounties on Growth of Flax and Linen Manufactures | 19,615 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Bounties on Home Sale of Irish Manufactures | 15,692 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Towards Building Public Offices | 5,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Rebuilding Kilkenny College | 982 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 2,663 | 3 | 6 | ||||||
| County Infirmaries | 2,861 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Paving Dublin Streets (out of Duty on Carriages) | 5,769 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Hibernian School | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Protestant Charter Schools | 10,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital and Workhouse | 3,433 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| House of Industry, Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Hibernian Marine Society | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Auditing Grants for Public Works | 426 | 12 | 1 | ||||||
| Inspector of Prisons | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Police Commissioners and Justices, Dublin | 2,192 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Assistant Justices | 227 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Transportation of Felons | 1,836 | 12 | 8 | ||||||
| Salaries,etc. of Officers of House of Commons, and other Expenses, including Printing | 10,256 | 10 | 7 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 56,758 | 0 | 10 | ||||
| All other army services | 492,594 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 11,899 | 7 | 77 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 19,605 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Advances | Advance to Dublin Corporation, for improving Port of Dublin | 9,230 | 15 | 4 | |||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 165,193 | 16 | 11 | |||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 92,223 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1788 | 203,990 | 13 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1787/1788: | 1,820,353 | 18 | 4 | ||||||