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Treasury Account 1786/1787

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1786 to 25th March 1787
						£	s.	d.
Balances at Lady-day, 1786	Ordinary Revenue					127,538	19	11	½
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				131,095	16	6	¾
		Tillage				1,840	6	5
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		Duncannon Fort				1,573	3	8	½
Applicable to the Civil List, Military Establishment, and Extraordinaries						875,768	3	8
	Quit Rents					214	18	1	½
	Casualties					1,291	4	9
	Dismissed Collectors					3,325	18	8	¾
	Stamps					32,132	1	6
	Postage					14,101	12	9	½
	4s. Tax on	Salaries and pensions				5,104	15	1	¼
		Profits of employments				1,203	14	3	½
	Public Coal Yards					864	0	0
	Poundage Fee, one year to Lady-day 1787					21,055	8	0	¾
	Pells Fees					4,141	0	0	¼
	Vice-Treasurers and Clerk of the Pells their ancient salary, to Christmas 1786					105	0	0
	From several Regiments of Infantry, on account of their non-effective accounts					1,500	0	0
	From the Managers and Directors of the State Lottery, a balance of their account of licences issued to Office-keepers					233	18	8
	From the Collector of Waterford, on account of rent of New Geneva					738	14	2	½
	On the Lottery of 1786, in full of the subscription					165,330	0	0
						40,000	0	0
						22,900	0	0
						36,740	0	0
						20,000	0	0
						2,750	0	0
						10,000	0	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan from the Revenue Collectors					152,218	9	0	¾
	Dissmissed Collectors					56	2	2
						0	0	0
						2,586	17	6
						1,713	16	9	½
						6	18	0
						617	5	0	½
	Duncannon Fort					6,500	0	0
						0	0	0
						0	0	0
						10	0	0
TOTAL Receipts for 1786/1787:						1,689,368	8	3	½

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1786 to 25th March 1787
						£	s.	d.
Civil List	Exchequer					26,330	16	0
						5,941	15	1
	Chancery					6,267	1	6	¼
	Common Pleas					5,300	0	0
	State Officers					8,169	0	10	¼
	Incidents					16,897	8	8	¼
	Custom Officers					4,221	1	7	¼
	Perpetuities					1,003	19	11	¾
	Appeals					1,500	0	0
	Non-conforming Ministers					2,025	0	0
	Commissioners and Overseers of Barracks					2,362	10	0
	Admiralty					525	0	0
	Commissioners of Imprest Accounts					4,704	8	10	¾
	Pensions					43,989	10	4
	French Pensions					531	12	6
	Concordatum					5,000	0	0
Military Establishment	General Officers					33,098	3	4
	Army	Subsistence				285,957	4	10	½
		Cloathing				46,343	14	2	¾
		Arrears				28,371	14	8	½
	Warrant Men	Subsistence				11,752	19	5	½
		Cloathing				4,166	12	6	½
	Additional Pay for Dublin Duty					4,549	1	5
	Additional Pay in Lieu of Stoppages					8,816	10	7	¼
	Battle-Axes					1,746	15	8
	Garrisons					3,435	17	0
	Incidents					60	0	0
	Fire and Candles for Guards and Garrisons					166	0	0
	Pensions					3,939	6	2	½
	Half-pay Officers					16,538	11	0	¾
	Widows of Officers					1,730	13	1	½
	Ordnance					21,188	16	0	½
	Contingencies					3,000	0	0
	Barracks					13,336	10	0
Extraordinaries	King's Letters					125,632	1	3	¼
	Parliamentary Grants					85,020	8	7	½
		Bounty to the linen manufacture				4,000	0	0
		Further bounty to the linen manufacture				10,000	0	0
		Premiums on flax-seed				7,250	0	0
	Exceedings on	Concordatum				63,338	16	3	¼
		Military Contingencies				16,332	9	6	½
		Barracks				19,700	7	8	½
	Prizage					3,092	15	7	½
	Commissioners of Public Accounts					1,600	0	0
	Lottery Prizes					158,020	0	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan	Principal of	Debentures			0	0	0
			Treasury Bills			183,950	0	0
		Interest on	Debentures			38,954	8	0
			Treasury Bills			34,961	11	6
		Life Annuities				51,156	5	0
		Bank Annuity				24,000	0	0
		Short Annuities				2,250	0	0
	Linen Manufacture					0	0	0
	Protestant Schools					37	0	0
	Lagan Navigation					617	5	0	½
	Improving Dublin					6,500	0	0
	Duncannon Fort					203	5	10	¾
Balances at Lady-day, 1787	Appropriated Duties	Loan				132,048	3	3	½
		Linen				0	0	0
		Tillage				6,147	18	8	½
		Duncannon Fort				1,369	17	9	¾
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		North-West fisheries				10	0	0
	Ordinary Revenue					86,135	11	6	¼
TOTAL Payments for 1786/1787:						1,689,369	4	8	½

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