Chisholm's Account of Public Income and Exenditure 1799/1800
from the Great Return of 1868/69
25th March 1799 to 25th March 1800
| Receipts | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1799 to 25th March 1800 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1799 | 308,133 | 6 | 3 | ||||||
| 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 | 2,408,961 | 5 | 5 | |||||
| Special Appropriated Duties | Customs, etc. | to Lagan Navigation | 1,222 | 12 | 3 | ||||
| to Irish Fisheries | 109 | 11 | 1 | ||||||
| Coal Duty, to Improving Dublin | 6,305 | 7 | 1 | ||||||
| 2,520 | 0 | 0 | |||||||
| Stamps | 132,252 | 12 | 2 | ||||||
| Post Office | 16,817 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| 4s. Tax on Salaries, Pensions, etc. of Absentees | 8,015 | 0 | 9 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous | Casualties | 2,518 | 18 | 6 | |||||
| Public Coal Yards | 4,563 | 17 | 10 | ||||||
| Poundage Fees and Pells Fees | 35,870 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| Gain by Exchange | 37,058 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Voluntary Contributions | 15,511 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| Imprest Money repaid, including Seamen's Wages repaid by Great Britain | 9,108 | 4 | 4 | ||||||
| Lotteries, 1799, in full of Subscriptions, per 39 George III, c.7 | 336,923 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Raised by the Creation of Debt | Raised by Loan in England, and remitted from the British Exchequer, in full of 3,000,000l. for the service of Ireland, out of 15,500,000l. Loan 1799 per British Act 39 George III, c.60 | 3,000,000 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Raised by Loan Debentures at 5l. per cent, with Premium of 495,000l. in Treasury Bills, per 39 George III, c.25 | 1,846,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Raised by Loan at 5l. per cent for the Royal Canal, in part of 25,000l. per 38 George III, c.79 | 10,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Raised by Issue of Treasury Bills, at 5l. per cent | 646,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| TOTAL Receipts for 1799/1800: | 8,828,352 | 15 | 10 | ||||||
| Issues | British £ | ||||||||
| 25th March 1799 to 25th March 1800 | |||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | |||||||
| Interest, etc. of Public Debt | Interest and Management of Irish Debt funded in England, deducting Dividends of Sinking Fund | 304,669 | 7 | 5 | |||||
| Interest of Government Stock funded in Ireland, deducting Dividends of Sinking Funds | 150,784 | 5 | 11 | ||||||
| Interest of Loan Debentures | 288,770 | 1 | 2 | ||||||
| Interest of Debt to Bank of Ireland | 50,769 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Tontine Life Annuities | payable in London | 37,892 | 15 | 4 | |||||
| payable in Dublin | 6,913 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Short Annuities, including Bank Annuity | 64,696 | 0 | 11 | ||||||
| Interest on Treasury Bills | 68,902 | 11 | 0 | ||||||
| Discount for prompt payments of Loans in Ireland | 8,551 | 9 | 11 | ||||||
| Receiving and remitting etc., 3,000,000 Loan 1799, raised in England | 11,737 | 7 | 4 | ||||||
| Civil Government | Civil List | Salaries etc. of State Officers, Law and other Civil Officers, and Incidental Expenses | 137,859 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Pensions | 125,077 | 2 | 5 | ||||||
| Other Civil Expenditure | Out of Special Appropriated Funds | Linen | 732 | 13 | 4 | ||||
| Lagan Navigation | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Improving Dublin | 6,729 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| King's Inns | 625 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Prisage | 1,993 | 5 | 0 | ||||||
| Lottery Prizes | 274,243 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Management of Lotteries | 8,781 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Sinking Fund expenses | 328 | 14 | 3 | ||||||
| Parliamentary Grants | Permanent Grants | Public Infirmaries | 4,707 | 13 | 10 | ||||
| Public Coal Yards | 10,803 | 8 | 4 | ||||||
| Police | 15,649 | 6 | 10 | ||||||
| Inspector General of Prisons | 184 | 12 | 4 | ||||||
| Inland Navigations | 10,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Transportation | 7,621 | 2 | 2 | ||||||
| Auditing and Passing Public Accounts | 4,370 | 8 | 0 | ||||||
| Secret Service | 5,709 | 15 | 0 | ||||||
| Superannuation, etc. | 24,291 | 12 | 8 | ||||||
| Judges' Additional Salaries | 17,907 | 13 | 10 | ||||||
| Annual Grants | Officers, House of Commons | 9,302 | 16 | 7 | |||||
| Public Officers, for Services | 1,163 | 1 | 7 | ||||||
| Public Hospitals and Schools | 49,247 | 5 | 7 | ||||||
| Linen and Hempen Manufactures | 19,938 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Board of First Fruits | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Dublin Society | 5,076 | 18 | 6 | ||||||
| Paving, etc., Dublin Streets | 9,230 | 15 | 5 | ||||||
| Wide Streets, Dubin | 4,153 | 16 | 11 | ||||||
| Maynooth Seminary | 1,896 | 16 | 1 | ||||||
| St . Andrew's Church | 923 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Relief of Loyalists | 156,407 | 4 | 7 | ||||||
| Miscellaneous Services | Charge of Civil Buildings | 16,329 | 17 | 11 | |||||
| New Law Courts Building | 5,538 | 9 | 3 | ||||||
| Commisioners of Barracks | 9,510 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Military Survey | 326 | 3 | 4 | ||||||
| Lagan Navigation, in lieu of Appropriated Duties | 1,536 | 0 | 0 | ||||||
| Salaries, etc. of Parliamentary Officers, including Fees on Public Bills | 6,050 | 2 | 6 | ||||||
| Messengers' Bills and Incidents of Public Departments | 9,167 | 10 | 5 | ||||||
| Clothing of Battle Axe Guards, etc. | 683 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Printing and Stationery, Houses of Parliament | 13,675 | 15 | 1 | ||||||
| Printing and Stationery, Public Departments | 9,056 | 1 | 8 | ||||||
| Advertisements of Proclamations, etc. in Newspapers | 5,617 | 5 | 2 | ||||||
| Law Expenses and Criminal Prosecutions | 23,816 | 16 | 2 | ||||||
| Royal Irish Academy | 107 | 13 | 7 | ||||||
| Nautical Observatory | 191 | 11 | 8 | ||||||
| Allowances to French Ministers and Others | 1,090 | 2 | 0 | ||||||
| Provost and Fellows of Trinity College | 543 | 0 | 3 | ||||||
| Treasurer of City of Dublin | 738 | 9 | 8 | ||||||
| Pratique Masters, Port of Dublin | 966 | 18 | 8 | ||||||
| Naval and Military Expenditure | Army Services | 3,786,311 | 16 | 4 | |||||
| Ordnance Services | 362,542 | 3 | 1 | ||||||
| Manning the Fleet | 21,030 | 18 | 5 | ||||||
| 426,877 | 9 | 2 | |||||||
| Other expenditure | Repayment to Great Britain of Amounts Advanced in 1796/1797 and 1797/1798 | 403,779 | 1 | 10 | |||||
| Applied to the Reduction of Debt | Issued for Sinking Fund of Debt funded in Ireland | 119,695 | 0 | 4 | |||||
| Issued for Sinking Fund of Debt funded in England | 119,149 | 19 | 3 | ||||||
| Issued to pay off Loan Debentures | 4,615 | 7 | 8 | ||||||
| Issued to pay off Treasury Bills | 656,215 | 7 | 9 | ||||||
| Balances in the Irish Exchequer on 25th March 1800 | 908,938 | 16 | 7 | ||||||
| TOTAL Issues for 1799/1800: | 8,828,436 | 7 | 3 | ||||||