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Revenue Account 1769/1771

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1769 to 25th March 1770				25th March 1770 to 25th March 1771
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Balances in the Collectors Hands at Lady-day, 1769						77,587	16	3		0	0	0
[Balances in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						2,144	3	4		0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue standing out at said Time at Lady-day 1769]						101,810	0	0		0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs Inwards				210,490	15	3	⅛	200,270	19	8	⅜
		Customs Outwards				37,390	17	10	½	35,712	2	7	½
		Imported Excise				152,996	17	0	½	146,329	18	10
		Prizage on Wines				4,962	17	7		3,892	10	0
		Lighthouse Duties				418	17	2		446	15	2	½
		Fines, Seizures, and Forfeitures				3,349	15	5	⅞	3,243	18	0	¾
		Casualties				1,210	6	10		642	18	7
		Inland Excise				79,631	9	5	½	70,743	11	10
		Ale Licences				9,564	7	2	¾	8,244	2	7	¾
		Wine and Strong Waters Licences				24,359	2	2		21,720	10	0
		Arrears of Excise received				120	0	0		0	0	0
		Quit, &c. Rents				64,298	10	9	⅝	64,223	11	4
		Hearth-Money				58,820	0	0		58,976	18	0
		Duties on Tea, including 49l. 18s. 1d. short produced on the Sum applicable to the Hereditary Revenue, from Christmas, 1767, to Lady-day, 1769				7,349	18	1		7,300	0	0
	Additional Duties	Tobacco				70,567	8	11		66,339	9	0
		Wine				18,934	4	8		17,241	8	10
		Spirits				77,217	14	11		84,478	2	6
		Muslin				3,122	4	3		3,232	18	4
		Foreign Paper				677	9	8		613	14	7
		Cambrick, second additional duty				0	1	9		0	0	0
		Romals				0	0	0		0	15	0
		Molasses				36	5	9		0	0	0
		East-India Goods				4	1	0		0	0	0
		Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters				63,328	19	1		49,160	12	5	¾
TOTAL Receipts for 1769/1771:										1,913,209	2	1	½

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1769 to 25th March 1770				25th March 1770 to 25th March 1771
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge of Management	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment					82,787	15	10	¾	82,786	6	10	¼
	Incident Charges					30,647	12	3	⅝	31,783	17	10	½
	Officers Reward for Tobacco seized and sold					285	4	11	¼	0	0	0
	Officers Reward for Tea seized and sold					812	17	5	¾	127	16	4	¼
	Portage Bills					1,814	3	2	½	2,131	15	2
	Repayments to Merchants					6,079	7	8	½	6,744	12	5
	Repayments to Merchants on Beer Exported					0	0	0		1	19	4	½
	Premiums on	Flax-seed				7,582	7	6		8,480	4	5
		Corn exported				19	16	5	½	0	0	0
		Inland Carriage of Corn				18,706	19	2		19,290	0	0
		Corn carried Coastways				3,821	11	2		1,151	15	1
		Irish Coals brought to Dublin				169	11	4		105	4	10
		Convicting Burglarly				15	0	0		5	0	0
		Fishing Busses				4,438	9	0		11,983	11	8
		Fish Oil and Whalebone				31	15	5		19	4	9
		Irish Fish exported				5	4	0		186	17	10
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors					893	11	0		975	9	6
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses					1,079	6	3	½	1,258	0	6
	Salaries to Hearth-money Officers					6,405	0	0		6,295	0	0
	Hearth-Money Incidents and Constables					982	19	10	¾	950	6	4
	Allowance claimed for Hearth-Money Collectors and Gaugers Balances					33	6	4	¾	154	0	5
Drawbacks	Tobacco					727	13	4		1,220	7	5	½
	Wine					195	0	1		218	5	2
	Spirits					2,940	5	7		2,882	2	8
	Muslin					5	5	8		0	0	0
	Foreign Paper					2	15	9		2	19	3
	Molasses					36	5	9		0	0	0
	Ale and Beer					0	0	0		1	5	1
Payments made to the Vice-Treasurers						0	0	0		1,400,114	18	11	¼
From whence deducted so much of the Duties on Teas as are applied to the Linen and Loan Duties						0	0	0		-24,601	-19	-1
Balances in the Collectors Hands at Lady-day, 1771						0	0	0		85,350	17	10	⅜
[Balances at Lady-day 1771] And in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						0	0	0		1,359	16	1
Arrears on the Revenue standing on	Imported Excise					0	0	0		410	0	0
	Dismissed Collectors					0	0	0		31,590	0	0
	Hearth-Money					0	0	0		37,910	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents					0	0	0		31,800	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1769/1771:										1,913,209	2	1	½

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