Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1789/1790
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1789 to 25th March 1790
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1789 to 25th March 1790 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1789 | 256,525 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
| 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, and Taxes under the Management of Excise | 971,859 | 2 | 5 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 323 | 1 | 6 | ||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 4,692 | 9 | 4 | ||||||
| to Irish Fisheries | 634 | 17 | 2 | ||||||
| Coal Duty, for Improving Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Stamps, to Trinity College | 266 | 16 | 0 | ||||||
| Stamps, including Lottery Licences | 42,975 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| Post Office | 13,221 | 8 | 7 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 5,240 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 2,761 | 11 | 7 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 1,627 | 10 | 7 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 24,936 | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Imprest money repaid | 626 | 3 | 7 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1789, to complete 200,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 175,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1790, in part of 280,250l. (Irish) per 30 George III, c.2 | 129,346 | 3 | 0 | ||||||
| Advances repaid | Repayment of Advance, to complete 12,000l. (Irish) for Inland Navigation | 3,692 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures | at 3l. 10s. per cent from Midsummer 1788, to complete 300,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 138,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Christmas 1788, to complete 100,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 46,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Lady-day 1789, to complete 418,240l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 347,460 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| at 3l. 10s. per cent from Midsummer 1789, to complete 100,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III, c.2 | 83,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Issue of Treasury Bills, at 3l. 16s. per cent | 233,042 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1789/1790: | 2,489,693 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1789 to 25th March 1790 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 48,077 | 19 | 1 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 22,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 36,138 | 9 | 2 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 7,183 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Short Annuities | 2,009 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 25,014 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries and Expenses of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses, including Extraordinary Payments by Concordatum | 133,084 | 4 | 9 | ||||
| Pensions, including French Pensions | 70,945 | 7 | 4 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Duties | Linen Manufacture | 8,198 | 13 | 6 | ||||
| Tillage | 4,730 | 17 | 0 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation | 634 | 17 | 2 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Making up and passing the Vice Treasurer's Accounts | 1,181 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Prisage | 2,854 | 17 | 6 | ||||||
| Extraordinary Payments by King's Letters | 35,219 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
| Lottery Prizes, 1788 | 184,181 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Management of Lotteries | 6,376 | 8 | 4 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous Supply Grants | Bounties on Growth of Flax and Linen Manufactures | 19,615 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Bounties on Home Sale of Irish Manufactures | 7,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Dublin Society for Improvement of Husbandry, etc. | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Lough Swilly Navigation | 2,769 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Tillage (out of Tax on Coaches) | 2,432 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Paving Dublin (out of Duty on Carriages) | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Parliament Square, Trinity College | 1,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Road to Lough Neagh Navigation | 1,846 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Building Public Offices | 5,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Board of First Fruits, for Building Churches | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Salaries,etc. of Officers of House of Commons, and other Expenses, including Printing | 11,248 | 19 | 10 | ||||||
| Public Coal Yards, Dublin and Cork | 1,007 | 1 | 10 | ||||||
| Commissioners of Education | 184 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Commissioners of Imprest Accounts | 553 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Inspector of Prisons | 184 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Police Commissioners and Justices, Dublin | 1,753 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| County Police and Assistant Justices | 2,330 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Transportation of Convicts | 2,824 | 12 | 10 | ||||||
| County Infirmaries | 2,953 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Protestant Charter Schools | 11,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Foundling Hospital and Workhouse | 6,344 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| House of Industry, Dublin | 7,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Hibernian Marine Society | 923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Military Expenditure | Army Services | Army services by King's Letters | 50,102 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| All other army services | 514,328 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Ordnance Services | Ordnance services by King's Letters | 14,623 | 8 | 3 | |||||
| All other ordnance services | 19,716 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 660,789 | 4 | 7 | |||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 245,030 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1790 | 287,991 | 4 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1789/1790: | 2,489,693 | 16 | 10 | ||||||