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Revenue Account 1765/1767

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1765 to 25th March 1766				25th March 1766 to 25th March 1767
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Balances in the Collectors Hands at Lady-day, 1765						102,100	7	10	¾	0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue standing out at said Time						89,980	0	0		0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs Inwards				214,985	19	10	½	204,864	17	6	½
		Customs Outwards				37,788	10	2		34,259	13	2
		Imported Excise				173,313	16	2	½	147,411	16	2
		Prizage on Wines				5,249	16	4		4,962	6	10
		Light-House Duties				470	2	4		514	0	6
		Fines, Seizures and Forfeitures				6,049	12	6		4,410	10	6	⅜
		Amount of Bills enclosed to the Collector of Dublin in an anonymous letter				0	0	0		118	13	10	½
		Casualties				1,032	14	0		1,004	12	4
		Inland Excise				85,752	15	3		80,094	17	11	¼
		Ale Licences				10,436	7	3	½	10,296	15	10	¾
		Wine, &c. Licences				14,752	10	8		13,914	19	0
		Quit, &c. Rents				64,294	2	9	½	64,408	8	7
		Hearth-Money				57,523	6	0		57,406	0	7
	Additional Duties	Tobacco				79,077	15	4	½	53,600	4	10
		Wine				20,939	10	6		19,675	18	4
		Spirits				71,518	9	9		82,910	8	8
		Muslin				2,462	9	6		2,640	5	4
		Foreign Paper				527	10	11		506	6	10
		Cambrick, 2nd additional duty				1,175	19	0		1,164	4	5
		East India Goods				2	5	0		0	0	0
		Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters				70,250	8	10	¾	64,788	17	1
TOTAL Receipts for 1765/1767:										1,958,638	8	8	⅜

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1765 to 25th March 1766				25th March 1766 to 25th March 1767
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge of Management	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment					77,316	6	7	¼	78,840	19	3	¼
	Incident Charges					32,077	10	3	½	32,823	13	7	¾
	Officers Reward for Tobacco seized and sold					1,041	17	1		901	1	5
	Officers Reward for Tea seized and sold					2,062	17	11	¾	1,858	2	2	½
	Portage Bills					1,915	9	3		1,918	13	1
	Repayments to Merchants					9,211	8	8	½	19,416	7	10
	Repayments to Merchants on Beer Exported					6	10	11	¼	15	9	4	½
	Premiums on	Flax-seed imported				6,434	3	1		9,460	5	3
		Corn exported				488	3	6		0	0	0
		Fish, Oyle and Whale-bone				55	15	5	½	82	8	10
		Owners of fishing busses				94	10	0		777	14	4
		Inland Carriage of Corn				9,212	14	1		6,074	8	2
		Irish Coals brought to Dublin				81	13	0		75	4	0
		Convicting Burglarly				50	0	0		15	0	0
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors					782	8	0		835	10	0
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses					1,190	0	0		1,006	17	6
	Salaries to Hearth-money Officers					6,490	0	0		6,325	0	0
	Hearth-Money Incidents and Constables					965	9	5	¼	943	8	0	½
	Allowance claimed for Hearth-Money Collectors and Gaugers Balances					130	14	10		301	9	9
Drawbacks	Tobacco					364	16	2		407	5	0
	Wine					241	16	3		352	12	1
	Spirits					2,346	15	0		2,850	13	8
	Muslin					167	7	1		8	3	8
	Cambrick					1	14	8		0	0	0
	Foreign Paper					0	0	0		6	11	5
	Ale and Beer					5	4	9		12	7	6
Payments made to the Vice-Treasurers						0	0	0		1,453,570	19	11	¾
Balances in the Collectors Hands at Lady-day, 1767						0	0	0		80,148	9	0	⅛
[Balances at Lady-day 1767] And in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						0	0	0		254	7	6
Arrears on the Revenue standing on	Imported Excise					0	0	0		410	0	0
	Dismissed Collectors					0	0	0		36,460	0	0
	Hearth-Money					0	0	0		38,340	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents					0	0	0		31,410	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1765/1767:										1,958,638	8	8	⅜

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