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Treasury Account 1775/1777

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1775 to 25th March 1777
						£	s.	d.
Balance at Lady-day, 1775						66,576	10	2	¼
Received of several Revenue Collectors	Ordinary Revenue					1,471,897	9	3	¾
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				97,361	12	0	¾
		Linen				1,875	11	8
		Tillage				12,036	1	7	¼
		Protestant Schools				2,756	3	9
		Lagan Navigation				1,601	15	2	¾
Quit Rents						166	16	10	¼
Casualties						2,238	3	6
Duty on on wrought plate						3,156	0	1
Poundage on the former additional duties to Christmas, 1775						5,470	15	11	¾
Poundage on the new additional duties to Christmans, 1775						1,610	8	10	½
Pells on the new additional duties to Christmas, 1775						322	1	9	¼
Four shillings tax on	Salaries and pensions					29,973	6	8	½
	Profits of employments					7,485	4	6	¼
Dismissed Collectors						50	0	0
Public Coal Yards	Dublin					701	0	0
	Cork					1,178	10	11	½
Herring Fisheries						1,660	0	0
Stamps						21,877	0	10	¾
Poundage Fee, one year to Christmas, 1776						20,623	14	7	½
Pells Fees, one year to Christmas, 1776						4,091	13	4
Savings on Loan Debentures, paid off						8	0	0
						175,000	0	0
						1,030	18	6	½
						103	15	2
Received from the Vice Treasurers their antient Salary and Allowance for Paper and Parchment, one year to Christmas, 1776						75	0	0
Received from the Clerk of the Pells his antient Salary, one year to Christmas, 1776						30	0	0
TOTAL Receipts for 1775/1777:						1,930,957	15	7	½

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1775 to 25th March 1777
						£	s.	d.
Exchequer						30,758	8	7	¼
						6,500	7	8
Chancery						9,235	19	10
Common Pleas						5,233	15	0
State Officers						16,672	0	10
Incidents						33,774	0	11
Custom Officers						7,671	8	3	¾
Perpetuities						2,831	19	9
Appeals						3,000	0	0
Pensions						208,944	13	8
French Pensioners						1,782	7	9	½
Non-conforming Ministers						2,400	0	0
Concordatum						61,088	2	7
Prizage						6,185	11	4	¼
Commissioners and Overseers of the Barracks, etc.						6,300	0	0
Admiralty						720	6	7
Commissioners of Imprest Accounts						5,600	0	0
King's Letters						170,516	10	8	¾
Parliamentary Grants						45,518	6	11
Parliamentary Payments	County infirmaries					6,451	12	7	¼
	Public Coal Yards	Dublin				804	10	8
		Cork				1,661	4	10	¾
	Premiums for preserving corn on stands					13,733	0	0
	Army baggage					2,938	8	7	½
	Loan	Principal				15,300	0	0
		Interest				67,920	16	4	½
	Trustees of the Linen Manufacture	for Parliamentary Bounty				9,000	0	0
		for Duties on Tea				20,000	0	0
	Life Annuities					43,906	8	8
	Dublin Society					5,000	0	0
Linen Manufacture						2,256	19	10	¾
Tillage						10,955	15	0	¾
Protestant Schools						2,740	0	0
Lagan Navigation						1,601	15	2	¾
Commissioners of Public Accounts						1,755	0	0
Duncannon Fort						302	9	1	¼
North West Fisheries						1,660	0	0
General Officers						50,534	1	9	½
Military Contingencies						27,171	4	6	¼
Army	Subsistence					435,591	16	3	½
	Cloathing					102,850	12	3
	Arrears					64,353	9	7
Warrant Men	Subsistence					18,553	7	8	½
	Cloathing					9,119	13	10	¼
Regiments Abroad	Subsistence					101,806	3	5	½
	Cloathing					11,903	15	2
	Arrears					10,273	0	3	¼
Warrant Men Abroad	Subsistence					3,707	12	4	¼
	Cloathing					942	7	10	¼
Fire and Candles for Guards and Garrisons						452	0	0
Additional pay for Dublin Duty						9,685	13	9
Battle-Axes						3,783	16	8
Half-pay Officers						39,275	1	4	¼
Ordnance						33,572	0	9
Widows of Officers						7,551	14	7	¼
Garrisons						7,010	11	4
Military Pensions						14,024	8	9
Barracks						62,303	18	10	¾
Additional Pay in Lieu of Treasury and Regimental stoppages						19,318	5	4	¼
Balances at Lady-day, 1777	Ordinary Revenue					11,574	16	11	¼
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				47,356	5	7	¼
		Linen				329	17	7
		Tillage				5,020	1	1	¾
		Protestant Schools				18	15	11	¾
		Lagan Navigation				0	0	0
		Duncannon Fort				151	0	1	¾
TOTAL Payments for 1775/1777:						1,930,957	15	7	½

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