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Revenue Account 1729/1731

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1729 to 25th March 1730				25th March 1730 to 25th March 1731
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Balance in the Collector's Accounts at Lady-day, 1729						38,469	5	5	⅞	0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue standing out at said Time						79,380	0	0		0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs Inwards				97,821	11	6	¼	78,671	13	1	¾
		Customs Outwards				27,012	8	1	¼	24,030	17	1	¾
		Imported Excise				78,248	0	4	¼	66,808	2	1	½
		Prizage on Wines				4,661	15	0		4,009	0	0
		Light-House Duties				344	6	5	½	265	4	6
		Fines and Seizures				4,161	13	4	⅜	4,787	9	9	½
		Casualties				994	13	8		386	5	8
		Inland Excise				64,360	1	10		71,410	5	3
		Ale Licences				7,288	2	11		8,393	16	0
		Wine, and Strong Water Licences				3,562	7	4		3,882	4	8
		Quit, &c. Rents				63,807	6	4	⅜	64,258	3	2
		Hearth-Money, clear of Insolvency and Charge of Collecting				42,301	9	7		42,263	3	11
	Additional Duties	Tobacco				35,256	18	1	¾	31,674	10	6	¼
		Wine, First Duty				15,410	15	3	¾	11,824	8	11	¼
		Wine, Second Duty				1,153	11	10		5,758	5	5	½
		Spirits, First Duty				16,871	17	3	½	10,592	15	0	¼
		Spirits, Second Duty				1,288	12	4	½	5,238	11	7	½
		Silk Manufactory				69	1	9		439	4	3
		Muslin				1,992	19	2		2,650	0	8
		East-India Goods				413	9	3		124	16	10
		Molasses				5	3	0		3	14	9
		Ale, Beer and Strong Waters				50,909	10	7		56,439	19	11	½
		Linen and Callico				2,685	11	7		1,984	6	9	½
		Tea, Coffee, Chocolate and Cocoa Nuts				4,616	15	8		3,623	17	5
TOTAL Receipts for 1729/1731:										1,142,608	5	6	⅝

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1729 to 25th March 1730				25th March 1730 to 25th March 1731
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Expence of Management	Salaries to Officers of the Revenue Establishment					49,317	1	4		49,812	14	11
	Incident Charges, consisting chiefly in Rents and Repairs of Custom Houses, building and repairing Boats, Charges of Supernumerary Tidewaiters and Boatmen, Stationary Ware and Printing Work, Fire and Candle, Law Charges &c.					14,014	1	9	⅝	12,543	17	8
	Portage Bills, Allowed to Masters of Ships					828	2	5		684	18	4	½
	Repayments to Merchants on Goods Exported					7,815	5	2	¾	6,885	18	3	½
	Premiums paid pursuant to certain Acts of Parliament for:	Hemp-seed and Flax-seed imported				900	13	3		1,310	15	5
		Corn exported				19	11	0		992	2	6
		Canvas exported				246	0	0		1,200	3	11
	Premiums paid pursuant to certain Acts of Parliament for	Convicting Burglary and transporting Priests				151	0	0		153	0	0
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses					848	17	11		1,010	3	6
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors					1,111	19	0		1,015	7	0
	Arrrears on Ale, &c., Licences, Hearth-Money and other unavoidable Deficiencies, computed at					630	12	6	¾	695	13	10
Drawbacks on the Additional Duties, viz.	Tobacco					47	9	10		178	18	5
	Wine, First Duty					1,097	3	10		983	2	11
	Wine, Second Duty					23	17	11		50	2	5
	Spirits, First Duty					2,949	2	4		2,253	18	6
	Spirits, Second Duty					60	9	9		10	8	6
	Silk Manufactory					0	0	0		0	5	10
	Muslin					0	15	0		0	0	0
	East-India Goods					0	0	0		2	7	10
	Ale and Beer					34	18	5	½	134	14	10	¼
	Linen and Callico					26	0	8		7	9	10
	Tea, Coffee, &c.					50	19	0		71	12	5
Payments made to the Deputy Vice-Treasurers						0	0	0		897,364	4	1	¼
Balance on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day 1731						0	0	0		7,312	3	1	⅝
Arrears on the Revenue standing out at said Time	Imported Excise					0	0	0		410	0	0
	Inland Excise and Licences					0	0	0		40	0	0
	Dismissed Collectors					0	0	0		15,380	0	0
	Hearth-Money					0	0	0		28,840	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents					0	0	0		33,090	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1729/1731:										1,142,608	5	5	¾

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