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Revenue Account 1775/1777

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1775 to 25th March 1776				25th March 1776 to 25th March 1777
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Balances on the Collectors Accounts at Lady-day, 1775						81,268	15	10	⅞	0	0	0
Balance in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						1,324	1	4		0	0	0
[Balance on] the Stamp Duties						430	2	6	½	0	0	0
Arrears on the Revenue, outstanding at said Time						90,614	6	11	⅜	0	0	0
Produce for one year, ended at Lady-day	Hereditary Revenue	Customs inwards				248,491	0	11		251,055	0	1	¼
		Customs outwards				42,488	4	8		35,883	4	1
		Import Excise				152,238	3	11		153,727	11	0
		Prizage on Wines				4,030	0	0		4,435	0	0
		Light-house Duty				360	13	7	¼	494	12	7
		Fines, Seizures, and Forfeitures				7,855	3	0	½	9,741	2	4	¾
		Casualties				731	8	4		1,506	15	2
		Inland Excise				79,411	15	5		80,061	12	2
		Ale Licences				7,272	19	4	¾	7,182	13	3	½
		Wine, and Strong Waters Licences				19,563	6	8		19,984	16	8
		Quit, &c. Rents				65,269	2	3	⅝	65,317	18	7	⅛
		Hearth-Money				60,966	16	4		60,580	14	0
		Residue of the Duties of Six-pence and Four-pence the Pound on Teas				4,404	12	11		4,590	12	1
	Additional Duties	Old	Tobacco			58,046	4	8		51,453	5	10	½
			Wine, 1st			15,825	11	11		16,124	14	8
			Spirits, 1st, single proof			74,829	2	1		70,886	7	2
			Spirits, exceeding single proof			4,881	15	7		4,472	3	5
			Muslin, 1st			2,694	0	3		3,770	5	1
			Molasses			0	0	0		65	12	10
			East-India Silks and Stuffs			3	15	0		2	5	0
			Paper, foreign, printng and writing			814	14	5		774	0	5
			Ale, Beer, and Strong Waters			57,353	19	0		57,750	13	11
		New	Wine, 3d			18,391	9	9		18,560	3	10
			Spirits, 2d, foreign			13,130	6	2		14,549	14	10
			Spirits, 3d, foreign			686	1	5		14,140	9	3
			Spirits, 2d of the British Sugar Colonies			304	5	1		25,135	17	5
			Muslin, 2d, Chintz and Callico, to Christmas, 1775			1,812	0	1		0	0	0
			Tea, exceeding in Value four Shillings the Pound Weight, to said Time [Christmas, 1775]			2,380	15	2		0	0	0
			Cards, 2d, to said Time [Christmas, 1775]			1,633	8	0		0	0	0
			Strong-waters, 3d, home-made			5,659	6	10		18,586	9	11	½
			Four and two-wheeled Carriages for the Year 1774			2,809	10	0		0	0	0
			The like [Four and two-wheeled Carriages] for the Year 1775			0	0	0		2,672	0	0
			Wheat, except of the Produce of Great Britain			0	0	0		53	6	9
	Supply	Stamped Vellum, Parchment and Paper				19,725	3	6		20,784	8	10	½
		Penalties				52	2	9		50	0	0
TOTAL Receipts for 1775/1777:										2,162,147	17	4

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1775 to 25th March 1776				25th March 1776 to 25th March 1777
						£	s.	d.		£	s.	d.
Charge of Management	Salaries to Officers on the Revenue Establishment					85,395	12	11	¼	86,183	2	11
	Incident Charges					39,320	18	9	¼	35,654	12	0	½
	Portage Bills					2,444	15	9	½	2,263	1	8	½
	Repayments to Merchants					3,307	17	4		7,316	3	3
	Repayments on Beer exported					17	4	11	½	9	19	9	¼
	Premiums on	Flax-seed imported				7,613	8	9		6,451	16	0
		Flax-seed exported				0	0	0		38	7	0
		Irish Coals brought to Dublin				86	1	0		88	15	0
		Inland Carriage of Corn, &c. to Dublin				60,747	2	2		61,789	18	6
		Corn, &c. exported				4,548	19	3	¼	8,648	4	9
		Fishing Busses				12,690	16	4		12,877	8	3	½
		Irish cured Fish exported				672	19	10	½	1,029	4	7
		Irish made Fish Oil exported				13	0	6		0	0	0
	Reward on convicting Burglarly					10	0	0		5	0	0
	Expences in keeping the several Light-houses					1,339	5	0		2,589	2	1
	Salaries to Hearth-money Officers					6,398	12	9		6,253	18	10	½
	Hearth-Money Incidents and Constables					1,152	13	2	¼	968	9	0	¼
	Wines Warrants to Privy Counsellors					883	7	0		1,190	17	0
	Allowance claimed for Hearth-Money Collectors Balances					243	11	6		717	0	0
	Arrears of Inland Excise					51	8	5		67	7	8
Drawbacks	On Old additional duties	Tobacco				71	5	0		39	17	11
		Muslin, 1st				0	0	0		34	7	6
		Wine, 1st				140	14	8		159	14	10
		Spirits, 1st, single				692	7	1		2,436	1	1
		Foreign Paper				1	2	5		0	0	0
		Beer, exported				10	16	2	¼	6	7	3	½
	On New additional duties	Tea, exceeding in Value 4s the Pound Weight				0	7	5		0	0	0
		Wine, 3d				155	14	11		189	14	6
		Spirits, 2d, of the British Sugar Colonies				0	0	0		192	4	2
		Spirits, foreign				32	7	3		83	16	4
		Allowance claimed for Hearth-money Collectors Balances on the Carriage Duty				126	0	0		79	10	0
Management (Stamps)	Salaries to Stamp Officers					5,220	6	9	¼	5,227	11	1	¼
	Incident Charges					2,214	12	4	½	1,832	16	2
	Discount Allowed to Purchasers of the Value of 10l. and upwards					269	0	7	½	286	6	11
Payments made to the Vice-Treasurers in the two Years ended Lady-day, 1777						0	0	0		1,474,352	9	8
The like, out of Stamp Duties						0	0	0		21,877	0	10	¾
Whence deducting so much thereof for the Duties on Teas, as are applied to the Linen Loan Funds						0	0	0		-20,000	0	0
Balances on the Collectors Accounts ending at Lady-day, 1777						0	0	0		107,861	8	8	¾
[Balances] on the Stamp Duties						0	0	0		4,114	2	9	¾
[Balances] And in the Hands of the Paymaster of Corn Premiums						0	0	0		1,787	0	8
Arrears on the Revenue standing on	Imported Excise					0	0	0		410	0	0
	Dismissed and deceased Collectors					0	0	0		22,713	8	1	⅛
	Hearth-Money					0	0	0		36,913	0	0
	Quit, &c. Rents					0	0	0		31,936	0	0
TOTAL Payments for 1775/1777:										2,162,547	17	4	⅝

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