Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1797/1798
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1797 to 25th March 1798
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1797 to 25th March 1798 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1797 | 539,509 | 18 | 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, and Taxes under the Management of Excise | 1,390,393 | 7 | 8 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Linen | 189 | 17 | 9 | ||||
| to Lagan Navigation | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| to Irish Fisheries | 1,208 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Coal Duty, to Improving Dublin | 7,585 | 9 | 7 | ||||||
| 876 | 18 | 6 | |||||||
| Stamps | 74,172 | 14 | 0 | ||||||
| Post Office | 21,625 | 4 | 8 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 7,700 | 14 | 7 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 1,725 | 10 | 10 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 2,187 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 23,504 | 0 | 8 | ||||||
| Gain by Exchange | 6 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Voluntary Contributions | 58,998 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| Imprest Money, repaid prior to 1795-6, in further part repayment of 638,288l. 2s. 3d., issued for Army Extraordinaries, etc. as per contra, and now brought to account | 205,324 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Other Imprest Money repaid, etc., including 7,798l. 14s. 7d. Seamen's Wages repaid by Great Britain | 7,798 | 14 | 8 | ||||||
| Gold Mine, county Wicklow | 895 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Lotteries, 1797, in full of the Subscription, per 37 George III, c.4 | 279,692 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Other Receipts | Advanced from the British Exchequer for Public Services (repaid 1798/1799) | 79,134 | 1 | 6 | |||||
| Advanced from the British Exchequer for Public Services (repaid 1799/1800) | 4,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan Debentures, at 5l. per cent, with an Annuity of 4l. 15s. per cent for 13.5 years, from 25th September 1796, to complete 325,000l. (Irish) subscribed in England, per Resolution of the Irish House of Commons of 18th October 1796 | 224,400 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Raised by Loan in England, and remitted from the British Exchequer, in full of 1,500,000l. for the service of Ireland, out of 14,500,000l. Loan, 1797, per British Act, 37 George III, c.57 and in part of 3,395,696l. per 37 George III, c.4 | 1,500,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan Debentures, at 5l. per cent from 25th December 1796, in further part of the same Irish Act [37 George III c.4] | 369,276 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan from Bank of Ireland, at 5l. per cent, with an Annuity for 19 years of 3l. 12s. 6d. per cent, and Interest on prior Loan increased from 4l. 5s. to 5l. per cent | 461,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan, at 4l. per cent, for Inland Navigations, in further part of 200,000l. (Irish) per 29 George III c.33 | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 5l. per cent | 535,384 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 6l. per cent (92l. Raised on 100l. Bill) | 178,168 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1797/1798: | 5,975,574 | 7 | 7 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1797 to 25th March 1798 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest, etc. of Irish Debt funded in England | 75,937 | 10 | 0 | |||||
| Interest of Government Stock funded in Ireland, deducting Dividends of Sinking Funds | 83,047 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Interest of Loan Debentures | 173,585 | 14 | 1 | ||||||
| Interest of Debt to Bank of Ireland | 37,153 | 16 | 10 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 39,000 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 6,744 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Short Annuities, including Bank Annuity | 57,092 | 8 | 2 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 45,128 | 7 | 3 | ||||||
| Discount for prompt payments of Loans 1797 (325,000l. and 500,000l. Irish) | 14,974 | 19 | 0 | ||||||
| Receiving and remitting etc. ditto (Loans, 1797) | 27,922 | 2 | 7 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries etc. of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses | 133,408 | 1 | 10 | ||||
| Pensions | 114,652 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Funds | Linen | 3,566 | 17 | 10 | ||||
| Lagan Navigation | 283 | 8 | 6 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 6,000 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| King's Inns | 2,608 | 12 | 3 | ||||||
| Prisage | 2,854 | 17 | 7 | ||||||
| Lottery Prizes | 183,415 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Management of Lotteries | 12,084 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| Sinking Fund expenses | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Permanent Grants | Public Infirmaries | 2,792 | 6 | 2 | ||||
| Public Coal Yards | 318 | 8 | 4 | ||||||
| Police Establishment | 18,013 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| Bounties on Home Sale of Irish Manufactures | 3,230 | 15 | 4 | ||||||
| Inspector General of Prisons | 230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Secretary to Commissioners of Education | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Inland Navigations | 92 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Transportation | 1,673 | 15 | 11 | ||||||
| Auditing and Passing Public Accounts | 2,841 | 11 | 1 | ||||||
| Secret Service | 8,626 | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Superannuation, etc. | 2,492 | 13 | 9 | ||||||
| Judges' Additional Salaries | 17,792 | 6 | 2 | ||||||
| Annual Grants | Officers of House of Commons | 9,016 | 13 | 7 | |||||
| Public Officers, for Services | 1,966 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Public Hospitals and Schools | 34,218 | 4 | 2 | ||||||
| Linen and Hempen Manufactures | 19,938 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Board of First Fruits | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Dublin Society | 5,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Paving and Lighting Dublin | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Wide Streets. Dubin | 14,769 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous Services | Commisioners of Barracks | 9,516 | 5 | 2 | |||||
| Military Survey | 260 | 10 | 2 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation, in lieu of Appropriated Duties | 1,489 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Carlisle Bridge | 5,235 | 18 | 9 | ||||||
| Lighthouse, county Mayo | 475 | 16 | 3 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Parliamentary Officers, including Fees on Public Bills | 5,144 | 14 | 6 | ||||||
| Public Officers, other than House of Commons | 2,985 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Messengers' Bills and Incidents of Public Departments | 9,864 | 6 | 1 | ||||||
| Clothing of Battle Axe Guards, etc. | 1,003 | 3 | 8 | ||||||
| Printing and Stationery, Houses of Parliament | 22,525 | 5 | 1 | ||||||
| Printing and Stationery, Public Departments | 6,451 | 14 | 0 | ||||||
| Advertisements of Proclamations, etc. in Newspapers | 5,175 | 6 | 5 | ||||||
| Law Expenses and Criminal Prosecutions | 23,815 | 10 | 5 | ||||||
| Royal Irish Academy | 107 | 13 | 6 | ||||||
| Roman Catholic Seminary | 6,661 | 7 | 6 | ||||||
| Military Allowances | 178 | 5 | 4 | ||||||
| Ancient and Cusotmary Allowances to French Ministers and others | 1,070 | 10 | 9 | ||||||
| Provost and Fellows of Trinity College | 513 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Treasurer of City of Dublin | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Pratique Masters, Port of Dublin | 966 | 18 | 7 | ||||||
| Naval and Military Expenditure | Army Services | 2,171,408 | 6 | 2 | |||||
| Ordnance Services | 374,662 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| Manning the Fleet | 29,310 | 1 | 3 | ||||||
| 188,090 | 18 | 9 | |||||||
| Issued in advance from the Treasury, prior to 1795/1796, for Army Extraordinaries, etc., (see Irish Commons Journal, Appendix, 22nd February 1797) and now allowed by King's Letter | 638,288 | 2 | 3 | ||||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued for Sinking Fund of Debt funded in Ireland | 47,168 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Issued for Sinking Fund of Debt funded in England | 14,937 | 10 | 0 | ||||||
| Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 27 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 1,025,076 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1798 | 210,241 | 16 | 4 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1797/1798: | 5,975,544 | 7 | 2 | ||||||