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Revenue Account 1725/1727

from Journals of the House of Commons of the Kingdom of Ireland

25th March 1725 to 25th March 1727

Receipts			Irish £
			25th March 1725 to 25th March 1726				25th March 1726 to 25th March 1727
			£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Ballances remaining on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day, 1725			41,055	16	9	¾	0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue standing out at said Time			86,880	0	0		0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs inwards	86,022	5	0	½	101,904	0	10	½
		Customs outwards	32,957	0	7	½	30,508	0	7	½
		Imported Excise	74,091	2	11		86,989	16	3	½
		Prizage on Wines	4,952	6	9		5,714	3	0
		Light-House Duties	241	14	7		260	9	11
		Fines, and Seizures	5,124	3	8		2,099	15	1	⅝
		Casualties	394	19	6		368	5	4
		Inland Excise	76,864	2	4	¾	78,954	4	7	¾
		Ale Licences	9,273	16	1	½	8,932	5	4	¾
		Wine, and Strong Water Licences	3,917	2	2		3,776	0	10
		Quit, &c. Rents,	63,432	5	10	⅝	62,816	10	2	⅝
		Hearth-money, clear of Insolvency and Charge of Collecting	42,108	14	0		42,492	6	0
		Quit, &c. Rents	46,291	0	4	¾	56,732	7	11	¼
	Additional Duties	Tobacco	16,231	9	5	½	17,627	3	8	¾
		Wine	10,905	4	7	½	12,955	19	4
		Spirits	3,555	11	8		3,738	18	6
		Muslin	16	17	0		226	15	6
		East India Goods	0	4	6		3	9	10
		Unstatutable Yarn	1,727	14	9		2,711	1	9
		Linen and Callico	14	12	4		29	15	5
		Twine and Cordage	3,704	10	6		2,319	6	5
		Tea, Coffee, Chocolate and Cocoa Nutts	60,783	14	1		62,551	0	3
		Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters
TOTAL Receipts for 1725/1727:							1,254,258	6	8	⅝

Payments			Irish £
			25th March 1725 to 25th March 1726				25th March 1726 to 25th March 1727
			£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Expence of Management	Re-payments to Merchants on Goods Exported		8,565	15	9	½	8,216	16	10
	Portage Bills to Masters of Ships		736	18	5		913	4	4	½
	Expences in Keeping the several Light-Houses		1,022	12	2		1,017	2	3
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors		897	9	0		1,035	6	0
	Praemiums paid for	Corn exported	193	16	3		1,034	9	0
		Hemp-seed and Flax-seed imported	862	4	4		1,062	15	0
		Canvas Exported	648	7	10		726	6	9
		Beer Exported	16	12	7		87	14	3	¾
		Convicting Burglars and transporting priests	92	0	0		144	0	0
	Incident Charges, consisting chiefly in Rents and Repairs of Custom Houses, building and repairing of Boats, Charges of Supernumerary Tide-waiters and Boatmen, Stationary Ware and Printing Work, Fire and Candle, Law Charges, &c.		16,734	12	0	⅝	9,775	12	8	¼
	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment		48,393	0	9	¾	48,843	15	6	½
	Insolvencies on the Ale, &c. Licences, Hearth-Money and other unavoidable Deficiencies		930	12	0		496	9	11
Drawbacks on the Additional Duties	Tobacco		101	10	4		216	1	1
	Muslin		0	9	5		6	4	8
	East India Goods		0	0	0		11	8	5
	Wine		1,494	14	11		977	9	0	½
	Spirits		2,761	11	5		3,207	3	5
	Linen and Callico		55	5	1		25	1	11
	Twine and Cordage		0	0	0		16	2	9
	Tea, Coffee, &c.		0	0	0		29	7	9
Payments made to the Deputy Vice-Treasurers			0	0	0		967,968	6	11	¾
Ballances on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day, 1727			0	0	0		47,689	15	7	½
Arrears standing out at said Time on	Imported Excise		0	0	0		499	0	0
	Inland Excise and Licences		0	0	0		360	0	0
	Dimissed Collectors		0	0	0		12,420	0	0
	Hearth-Money		0	0	0		28,990	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents		0	0	0		35,070	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1725/1727:							1,254,347	6	8	⅝