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Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1798/1799

from the Great Return of 1868/69

25th March 1798 to 25th March 1799

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Receipts				British £
				25th March 1798 to 25th March 1799
				£	s.	d.
Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1798				210,241	16	4
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			1,591,776	9	10
	Special Appropriated Duties	Customs, etc.	to Linen	899	9	0
			to Lagan Navigation	1,106	15	5
			to Irish Fisheries	6,119	14	10
		Coal Duty, to Improving Dublin		7,649	16	1
				625	16	11
	Stamps			70,859	8	6
	Post Office			22,078	9	9
	4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees			8,046	9	4
	Miscellaneous	Casualties		2,912	12	6
		Public Coal Yards		2,700	16	2
		Poundage Fees and Pells Fees		27,335	18	1
		Gain by Exchange		2,428	3	4
		Voluntary Contributions		57,452	18	8
		Imprest Money repaid, including Seamen's Wages repaid by Great Britain		16,725	14	8
		Lotteries, 1799, in full of the Subscription, per 38 George III, c.10		327,000	0	0
Other Receipts	Advanced from the British Exchequer for Public Services (repaid 1799/1800)			399,779	1	10
Raised by the Creation of Debt	Raised by Loan in England, and remitted from the British Exchequer, in full of 2,000,000l. for the service of Ireland, out of 17,000,000l. Loan 1798 per British Act 38 George III, c.37			2,000,000	0	0
	Raised by Loan from Bank of ireland, on Debentures (for 328,000l. Irish) at 5l. per cent per 38 George III, c.33			184,689	4	7
	Raised by Loan Debentures (for 1,715,950l. Irish) at 5l. per cent, from 25th March 1798, per 38 George III, c.32			966,211	16	11
	Raised by Loan, at 4l. per cent, for Inland Navigations, per 29 George III c.33			2,400	0	0
	Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 5l. per cent			553,846	3	1
	Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 6l. per cent			27,692	6	2
TOTAL Receipts for 1798/1799:				6,490,579	2	0

Issues						British £
						25th March 1798 to 25th March 1799
						£	s.	d.
Interest, etc. of Public Debt	Interest and Management of Irish Debt funded in England, deducting Dividends of Sinking Fund					202,808	7	1
	Interest of Government Stock funded in Ireland, deducting Dividends of Sinking Funds					26,296	6	1
	Interest of Loan Debentures					177,211	6	7
	Interest of Debt to Bank of Ireland					50,769	4	7
	Tontine Life Annuities	payable in London				37,892	15	4
		payable in Dublin				6,397	7	8
	Short Annuities, including Bank Annuity					64,744	12	6
	Interest on Treasury Bills					41,818	16	9
	Discount for prompt payments of Loans in Ireland					7,733	2	8
	Receiving and remitting etc. ditto Loans 1797 and 1798, raised in England					12,537	16	10
Civil Government	Civil List	Salaries etc. of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses				132,097	5	4
		Pensions				101,938	18	2
	Other Civil Expenditure	Out of Special Appropriated Funds	Linen			1,681	8	3
			Lagan Navigation			1,106	15	4
			Improving Dublin			7,384	12	4
			King's Inns			876	18	6
		Prisage				5,709	15	1
		Lottery Prizes				274,931	1	7
		Management of Lotteries				8,466	16	11
		Sinking Fund expenses				184	12	4
		Parliamentary Grants	Permanent Grants	Public Infirmaries		3,023	1	6
				Public Coal Yards		2,826	1	4
				Police Establishment		13,625	19	5
				Inspector General of Prisons		184	12	4
				Inland Navigations		30,092	6	2
				Transportation		9,029	5	4
				Auditing and Passing Public Accounts		2,127	16	8
				Secret Service		15,226	0	1
				Superannuation, etc.		12,458	9	5
				Judges' Additional Salaries		18,249	2	5
			Annual Grants	Officers, House of Commons		9,672	1	3
				Public Officers, for Services		1,966	3	1
				Public Hospitals and Schools		40,777	12	11
				Linen and Hempen Manufactures		22,534	12	4
				Board of First Fruits		4,615	7	8
				Dublin Society		5,076	18	6
				Paving and Lighting Dublin		9,230	15	5
				Wide Streets. Dubin		4,153	16	11
				Maynooth Seminary		7,613	0	1
				Reprinting Journals		9,841	11	4
				Relief of Loyalists		30,385	0	0
				Miscellaneous Services	Commisioners of Barracks	25,846	3	1
					Military Survey	260	10	2
					Lagan Navigation, in lieu of Appropriated Duties	815	10	9
					Salaries, etc. of Parliamentary Officers, including Fees on Public Bills	4,165	2	7
					Public Officers, other than House of Commons	347	19	4
					Messengers' Bills and Incidents of Public Departments	7,651	2	0
					Clothing of Battle Axe Guards, etc.	683	1	7
					Printing and Stationery, Houses of Parliament	7,993	3	10
					Printing and Stationery, Public Departments	9,309	7	6
					Advertisements of Proclamations, etc. in Newspapers	5,518	6	7
					Law Expenses and Criminal Prosecutions	24,266	9	1
					Royal Irish Academy	107	13	6
					Roman Catholic Seminary	2,569	7	10
					Allowances to French Ministers and Others	710	15	8
					Provost and Fellows of Trinity College	543	9	3
					Treasurer of City of Dublin	738	9	3
					Pratique Masters, Port of Dublin	966	18	7
Naval and Military Expenditure	Army Services					3,120,048	11	4
	Ordnance Services					369,093	14	7
	Manning the Fleet					23,029	6	8
						353,358	16	8
Other expenditure	Repayment to Great Britain of Amounts Advanced in 1796/1797 and 1797/1798					131,631	1	6
Applied to the Reduction of Debt	Issued for Sinking Fund of Debt funded in Ireland					101,447	19	3
	Issued for Sinking Fund of Debt funded in England					33,918	19	7
	Issued to pay off Treasury Bills					542,123	1	6
Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1799						308,133	6	3
TOTAL Issues for 1798/1799:						6,490,576	2	0

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Public revenues and expenditures of Ireland in the 18th century

Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1798/1799