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Revenue Account 1757/1759

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

25th March 1757 to 25th March 1759

Receipts			Irish £
			25th March 1757 to 25th March 1758				25th March 1758 to 25th March 1759
			£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Ballances in the Collector's Hands at Lady-day, 1757			60,283	17	0	⅞	0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue standing out at said Time			84,650	0	0		0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs inwards	137,570	12	6		161,578	8	10	¾
		Customs outwards	32,135	1	8	½	30,018	7	6
		Imported Excise	95,086	16	5		111,018	14	0
		Prizage on Wines	2,031	19	0		4,080	5	9
		Light-House Duties	785	17	6		726	0	2
		Fines, Seizures and Forfeitures	6,890	8	9	½	3,985	8	10	¼
		Casualties	1,187	3	10		961	17	5
		Inland Excise	67,622	15	8	¾	69,301	9	8
		Ale Licences	7,975	19	9	¼	8,948	12	10	¼
		Wine, &c. Licences	7,234	7	2		6,875	1	1	¼
		Quit, &c. Rents	64,169	14	0		63,410	6	8	¼
		Hearth-Money	52,859	12	0		53,482	16	0
	Additional Duties	Tobacco	65,264	4	8		48,294	14	5
		Wine	8,552	16	9		17,102	11	2
		Spirits	26,456	10	10		41,736	16	4
		Muslin	721	15	6		412	4	5
		East-India Goods	210	13	4		117	2	6
		Molasses	1	0	0		242	13	3
		Foreign Silk Manufacture	49	5	7		44	13	4
		Cambrick	1,041	9	2		1,008	6	8
		Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters	54,416	8	6	¼	54,742	7	6	¾
TOTAL Receipts for 1757/1759:							1,455,287	8	4	⅝

Payments			Irish £
			25th March 1757 to 25th March 1758				25th March 1758 to 25th March 1759
			£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge of Management	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment		58,091	3	10		58,252	14	11	⅛
	Incident Charges		17,040	5	4	¼	18,153	9	2	¼
	Officers Moiety of Tobacco seized and burned		588	16	10	½	1,298	17	2
	Officers Moiety of Tea seized and burned		0	0	0		578	11	1	½
	Portage Bills		1,282	10	5	½	1,495	7	4
	Repayments to Merchants		5,043	1	6		6,878	19	6
	Repayments to Merchants on Beer Exported		8	9	9	¼	19	7	11	½
	Premiums on	Flax-seed imported	5,652	11	9		5,405	10	4
		Convicting Burglary	50	0	0		5	0	0
		Inland Carriage of Corn	0	0	0		4,299	12	9
		Irish Coals imported into Dublin	0	0	0		144	10	3
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors		1,051	19	0		812	2	0
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses		977	17	6	¼	1,051	1	7
	Salaries to Hearth-money Officers		4,845	0	0		4,957	10	0
	Hearth-money Incidents and Constables		877	1	11	¼	898	12	5	¾
	Allowance claimed for Hearth-Money Collectors and Gaugers Ballances		208	11	1	¾	155	8	3	¼
Drawbacks	Tobacco		479	8	3		250	1	9
	Wine		157	11	4		277	17	8
	Spirits		2,013	7	11		1,667	10	9
	Cambrick		26	8	9		29	8	8
	Molasses		0	0	0		242	13	10
	Ale, Beer and Strong Waters		6	15	9	¾	15	10	3
Payments made to the Vice-Treasurers			0	0	0		1,103,611	16	0	½
Ballances in the Collectors Hands at Lady-day, 1759			0	0	0		58,664	13	4
Arrears on the Revenue standing on	Imported Excise		0	0	0		410	0	0
	Dismissed Collectors		0	0	0		22,110	0	0
	Hearth-Money		0	0	0		34,580	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents		0	0	0		30,620	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1757/1759:							1,455,287	8	4	⅜