Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1796/1797
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1796 to 25th March 1797
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1796 to 25th March 1797 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1796 | 1,000,358 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| 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 | 1,273,368 | 13 | 1 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 2,369 | 8 | 8 | ||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 368 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| to Irish Fisheries | 745 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Coal Duty, to Improving Dublin | 7,536 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
| 3,024 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Stamps | 81,251 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| Post Office | 17,104 | 10 | 6 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 8,413 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 2,959 | 17 | 4 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 3,406 | 3 | 5 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 27,020 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Imprest Money, repaid, in further part repayment of 638,288l. 2s. 3d., issued in advanced for Army Extraordinaries, etc. and brought to account in 1797/98 | 11,852 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| Other Imprest Money repaid (re Bank of Ireland). | 5,073 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Lottery, 1796, in full of the Subscription, per 36 George III, c.1 | 258,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Other Receipts | Remitted from Great Britain, to be repaid at a convenient time (repaid 1798-9) | 52,500 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Repayment of Advance in 1795-6 from Civil List Moneys | 5,067 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures at 5l. per cent, and by Short Annuities, at 1l. 5s. (British) per cent, for 15 years, from 25th March 1795, to complete 1191,666l. 13s. 4d. (Irish) per 35 George III, c.6 | 151,022 | 2 | 2 | |||||
| Raised by Loan, at 5l. per cent, and by Short Annuities, at 1l. 5s. per cent, for 15 years, from 25th March 1796, in part of 1,262,400l. (Irish) per 36 George III. c.1 (This amount, with 430,000l. Treasury Bills, makes 1,070,000l. (Irish), the total sum raised under this Act.) | 590,769 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan, at 5l. per cent, with an Annuity of 4l. 15s. per cent for 13.5 years, from 25th Septebmer 1796, in part of 325,000l. (Irish) subscribed in England, per Resolution of the Irish House of Commons | 75,600 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan, at 4l. per cent, for Inland Navigations, in further part of 200,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III c.33 | 16,800 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 5l. per cent | 535,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 6l. per cent | 17,451 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1796/1797: | 4,148,062 | 14 | 10 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1796 to 25th March 1797 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest of Loan Debentures | 201,616 | 0 | 3 | |||||
| Bank of Ireland Annuity | 35,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 56,000 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 7,257 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Short Annuities | 35,587 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 51,692 | 2 | 4 | ||||||
| Discount for prompt payments of Loans 1795 and 1796 | 10,641 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Receiving and remitting Loan, 1795, subscribed in London | 10,183 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries etc. of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses | 117,795 | 8 | 0 | ||||
| Pensions | 83,735 | 10 | 4 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Funds | Lagan Navigation | 269 | 10 | 0 | ||||
| Improving Dublin | 8,307 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Lighthouse, Arran | 1,248 | 17 | 1 | ||||||
| King's Inns | 2,083 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Prisage | 3,806 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Lottery Prizes | 184,145 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Management of Lotteries | 951 | 12 | 7 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Permanent Grants | Public Infirmaries | 1,523 | 1 | 6 | ||||
| Public Coal Yards | 4,887 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| Police Establishment | 6,848 | 18 | 8 | ||||||
| Bounties on Home Sale of Irish Manufactures | 6,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Inspector General of Prisons | 138 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Secretary to Commissioners of Education | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Inland Navigations | 16,800 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Transportation | 7,792 | 4 | 9 | ||||||
| Auditing and Passing Public Accounts | 2,031 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Secret Service | 3,330 | 13 | 8 | ||||||
| Superannuation, etc. | 2,258 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| Judges' Additional Salaries | 13,084 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Annual Grants | Officers of House of Commons | 9,293 | 12 | 0 | |||||
| Public Officers, for Services | 1,966 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Public Hospitals and Schools | 32,476 | 6 | 11 | ||||||
| Linen and Hempen Manufactures | 17,342 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Board of First Fruits | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Dublin Society | 5,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Paving and Lighting Dublin | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Reprinting Journals, etc. | 14,759 | 8 | 3 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous Services | New Law Courts Building | 2,307 | 13 | 10 | |||||
| Working Gold Mine, County Wicklow | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Commisioners of Barracks | 20,935 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Military Survey | 324 | 13 | 7 | ||||||
| Admiralty Court, rent | 173 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Parliamentary Officers, including Fees on Public Bills | 7,917 | 14 | 8 | ||||||
| Public Officers, other than House of Commons | 2,227 | 14 | 10 | ||||||
| Messengers' Bills and Incidents of Public Departments | 8,784 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Clothing of Battle Axe Guards, etc. | 683 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Printing and Stationery, Houses of Parliament | 5,448 | 5 | 9 | ||||||
| Printing and Stationery, Public Departments | 7,105 | 9 | 2 | ||||||
| Advertisements of Proclamations, etc. in Newspapers | 6,698 | 14 | 11 | ||||||
| Law Expenses and Criminal Prosecutions | 21,588 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Convict Services | 906 | 14 | 7 | ||||||
| Royal Irish Academy | 107 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Roman Catholic Seminary | 6,461 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Ancient and Cusotmary Allowances to French Ministers and others | 939 | 0 | 2 | ||||||
| Provost and Fellows of Trinity College | 1,086 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Treasurer of City of Dublin | 553 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Pratique Masters, Port of Dublin | 1,208 | 13 | 4 | ||||||
| Ferrymen's Compensaton on Building Carlisle Bridge | 6,923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Naval and Military Expenditure | Army Services | 1,781,788 | 12 | 3 | |||||
| Ordnance Services | 211,039 | 6 | 10 | ||||||
| Manning the Navy | 39,302 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 46 | 3 | 1 | |||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 506,953 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1797 | 539,509 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1796/1797: | 4,148,062 | 14 | 10 | ||||||