Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1788/1789
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1788 to 25th March 1789
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1788 to 25th March 1789 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1788 | 203,990 | 13 | 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 | 913,196 | 16 | 5 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | (including Duty on Wrought Plate) to Tillage | 8,198 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 295 | 6 | 9 | ||||||
| 16 | 12 | 4 | |||||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Stamps, to Trinity College | 260 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Stamps | 42,103 | 14 | 4 | ||||||
| Post Office | 11,002 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 9,463 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 2,188 | 7 | 9 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 196 | 14 | 4 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 23,552 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Several Lottery Office Keepers in consideration of his Majesty's free pardon to them | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Imprest money repaid, etc. | 14,320 | 18 | 9 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1788, in full of 200,000l. (Irish) per 28 George III, c.2 | 184,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1789, in part of 200,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 9,230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Advances repaid | Repayment of Advance, in part of 12,000l. (Irish) for Inland Navigation | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | |||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures | at 3l. 10s. per cent from Midsummer 1787, to complete 200,000l. (Irish) per 27 George III, c.2 | 46,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Midsummer 1788, in part of 300,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 138,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Christmas 1788, in part of 100,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 46,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Lady-day 1789, in part of 418,240l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 38,606 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Midsummer 1789, in part of 100,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 9,230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| for Inland Navigation, at 4l per cent from 29th April 1788, per 27 George III, c.30 | 11,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Issue of Treasury Bills, at 3l. 16s. per cent per annum | 232,788 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1788/1789: | 1,967,258 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1788 to 25th March 1789 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 44,962 | 7 | 2 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 22,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 38,353 | 16 | 11 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 6,975 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Short Annuities | 2,088 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 28,713 | 4 | 0 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 122,004 | 4 | 3 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 61,281 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Tillage | 11,324 | 5 | 11 | ||||
| Lagan Navigation | 295 | 6 | 9 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 16 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 590 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Prisage | 3,806 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 33,905 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Arrears of Lottery Prizes | 987 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Prizes of Lottery, 1787 | 181,726 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Management of Lotteries | 1,474 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| 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 | ||||||
| Building Courts of Justice and Record Offices | 5,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Paving Dublin (out of Duty on Carriages) | 3,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Repairing Quay at Carrickfergus | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| For Parliament Square, Trinity College | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 1,783 | 14 | 0 | ||||||
| Salaries,etc. of Officers of House of Commons, and other Expenses, including Printing | 10,431 | 3 | 3 | ||||||
| Auditing Grants for Public Works | 434 | 4 | 9 | ||||||
| Inspector of Prisons | 230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Police Commissioners and Justices, Dublin | 1,753 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| County Police and Assistant Justices | 2,495 | 8 | 7 | ||||||
| Transportation of Convicts | 3,033 | 0 | 6 | ||||||
| Commissioners of Education | 117 | 9 | 5 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Protestant Schools | 9,230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| County Infirmaries | 3,070 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital and Workhouse | 3,819 | 18 | 2 | ||||||
| House of Industry, Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Hibernian Marine Society | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| For Recovering a Debt due to the Exchequer | 461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 50,972 | 18 | 2 | ||||
| All other army services | 494,821 | 19 | 2 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 5,812 | 10 | 3 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 19,428 | 13 | 7 | ||||||
| Advances | Advance, for Inland Navigation | 11,076 | 18 | 6 | |||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 245,427 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 219,207 | 13 | 11 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1789 | 256,525 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1788/1789: | 1,967,258 | 1 | 7 | ||||||