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Revenue Account 1773/1775

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1773 to 25th March 1774				25th March 1774 to 25th March 1775
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Balances on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day, 1773						82,483	13	8	⅝	0	0	0
Balance in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						1,901	4	8		0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue, standing out at said Time						88,733	4	6	½	0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs inwards				229,609	12	1		203,008	12	11	½
		Customs outwards				37,169	13	4	½	38,010	10	4
		Import Excise				144,796	17	4		130,104	0	10	½
		Prizage on Wines				4,258	0	0		3,720	0	0
		Light-house Duty				463	18	6	½	392	7	2
		Fines, Seizures, and Forfeitures				4,527	5	7	¾	6,676	6	8	¾
		Casualties				823	11	3		640	19	9
		Inland Excise				77,679	0	10		77,259	4	0
		Ale Licences				7,680	13	5	¾	7,655	16	9	¾
		Wine, and Strong Waters Licences				20,817	15	0		18,733	15	0
		Quit, &c. Rents				64,152	19	5	¼	63,046	19	3	¼
		Hearth-Money				59,383	3	10	½	60,902	2	1	½
		Part of the Duty on Tea				7,300	0	0		7,300	0	0
		A further part applied to make up the Deficienies in the Revenue Proportion for the Years ending at Lady-day, 1772 and 1773				2,500	2	6		661	15	6
	Additional Duties	Old	Tobacco			72,016	19	7	½	51,859	0	6	½
			Wine, 1st			19,568	8	6		16,092	6	8
			Spirits, single and exceeding single proof			68,417	2	3		59,159	2	4
			Muslin, 1st			3,146	7	7		2,242	8	8
			East-India Silks and Stuffs			75	3	6		1	13	9
			Molasses			18	0	0		0	0	0
			Paper, foreign, printng and writing			772	2	7		732	12	4
			Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters			55,419	11	3		54,894	9	9
		New	Wine, 3d			3,057	3	1		18,963	3	1
			Spirits, except of the British Sugar Colonies			2,052	13	7		11,095	10	5
			Teas, exceeding in Value four Shillings per Pound Weight			261	10	1		2,626	2	8
			Cards, 2d			164	0	6		1,773	8	0
			Muslin, 2d Chintz and Callicoe			344	5	6		2,322	12	6
	Supply granted last Session on	Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper, received in Dublin				0	0	0		20,733	13	2
		The like, and for Value of Vellum, Parchment and Paper received by Country Distributors				0	0	0		3,395	15	4	½
		Penalties				0	0	0		50	0	0
TOTAL Receipts for 1773/1775:										1,923,648	14	1	⅛

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1773 to 25th March 1774				25th March 1774 to 25th March 1775
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge of Management	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment					90,777	17	3		85,330	2	9	½
	Incident Charges					33,994	7	1	¾	41,707	0	7	¼
	Portage Bills					2,407	2	10	½	2,154	9	11
	Repayments to Merchants					4,485	5	7		3,907	11	8
	Repayment of the Inland Excise of Beer exported					9	18	6		7	17	8
	Convicting Burglarly					15	0	0		20	0	0
	Premiums on	Flax-seed imported				5,368	16	2		9,306	7	6
		Flax-seed exported				0	0	0		79	13	0
		Irish Coals brought to Dublin				204	7	2		213	14	4
		Inland Carriage of Corn, &c. to Dublin				49,674	18	7		53,902	4	9
		Fishing Busses				7,311	7	6		13,138	18	2
		Irish cured Fish exported				130	10	10	¼	681	3	5
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors					957	18	0		1,039	16	0
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses					1,578	18	9		1,353	0	1	½
	Salaries to Hearth-money Officers					6,285	0	0		6,393	17	0
	Hearth-Money Incidents and Constables					940	15	7	¼	1,077	14	9
	Allowance claimed for Hearth-Money Collectors and Gaugers Balances					1,284	0	3		433	2	2	¼
	Arrears of Inland Excise					5	10	1	⅝	40	3	3	¾
Drawbacks	On Old additional duties	Tobacco				14	11	4		117	10	4
						251	15	3		213	6	4
						726	6	7		609	1	7
						5	7	6		2	16	6
		Foreign Paper				9	15	6		0	0	0
						6	6	6		5	0	5	½
	On New additional duties					11	9	1		194	10	5
						0	0	0		56	16	1
						0	0	0		1	8	3
Management (Stamps)	Salaries to Stamp Officers					0	0	0		3,840	1	4
	Incident Charges					0	0	0		7,589	0	9	¼
	Discount Allowed to Purchasers of the Value of 10l. and upwards					0	0	0		419	16	4	½
Payments made to the Vice-Treasurers in the two Years ended Lady-day, 1775						0	0	0		1,323,430	13	8	¼
The like, out of Stamp Duties						0	0	0		11,900	7	6	¼
Whence deducting so much of the Duties on Teas as are applied to the Linen and Loan Funds						0	0	0		-25,613	-15	-7
Balances on the Collectors Accounts ending at Lady-day, 1775						0	0	0		81,268	15	10	⅞
[Balances] The like, in their [Collectors'] Hands on the Stamp Duties						0	0	0		430	2	6	½
[Balances] And in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						0	0	0		1,324	1	4
Arrears on the Revenue standing on	Imported Excise					0	0	0		410	0	0
	Dismissed Collectors					0	0	0		19,347	6	11	⅜
	Hearth-Money					0	0	0		39,037	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents					0	0	0		31,820	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1773/1775:										1,923,648	4	1	⅛

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