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Treasury Account 1787/1788

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1787 to 25th March 1788
						£	s.	d.
Balances at Lady-day, 1787	Ordinary Revenue					86,135	11	6	¼
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				132,048	3	3	½
		Tillage				6,147	18	8	¼
		Duncannon Fort				1,369	17	9	¼
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		North-West fisheries				10	0	0
Applicable to the Civil List, Military Establishment, and Extraordinaries						859,609	13	1	½
	Quit Rents					80	15	6	½
	Casualties					1,444	3	8
	Dismissed Collectors					2,866	12	4
	Stamps					44,838	11	3	½
	Stamps, applicable to Lottery expenses					4,245	16	0
	Postage					13,440	14	1	½
	4s. Tax on	Salaries and pensions				13,758	7	1	¼
		Profits of employments				1,339	16	1
	Public Coal Yards					2,557	14	5	½
	Poundage Fee, one year to Lady-day 1788					24,503	2	5
	Pells Fees, one year to Lady-day 1788					4,835	14	3	½
	Vice-Treasurers and Clerks of the Pells, their ancient salaries, one year to Christmas 1787					105	0	0
	From the Tillage Fund, pursuant to Act of Session 1787	So much paid by King's Letters, in preceding year to the Commissioners for promoting the Inland Navigation, to discharge the several debts of that Corporation, as stated by the Imprest Board, net				2,889	4	4
		So much paid by King's Letter in preceding year to ditto, to enable Colonel Tanant[/] to complete the Plans etc. ordered by Parliament, net				1,212	16	3	½
	From the 10th Regiment of Foot, a balance of its non-effective account					1,624	18	0	½
	From Lieutenant-General Eyre Massey[?] a balance due by him to Government, as certified by the Imprest Board					107	4	5
	From the Collector of Waterford, on further account of the rent of New Geneva					828	12	7
	From the Right Honourable James Cuffe, a balance of his account of expenses in making preparations for the Genevan Emigrants, as certified by the Imprest Board					110	7	3	½
						160,000	0	0
	On Debentures					146,960	0	0
						10,000	0	0
						130,000	0	0
						90,000	0	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan	From the Revenue Collectors				194,736	17	0	½
						200	0	0
						7,960	0	0
						773	16	11
						10,308	1	11	¼
						1,978	9	7
						692	10	10	¾
						8,000	0	0
	Duncannon Fort					0	0	0
						0	0	0
						0	0	0
	Trinity College (A proportion of Stamp Duties applicable thereto)					256	6	3
TOTAL Receipts for 1787/1788:						1,972,050	0	5	½

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1787 to 25th March 1788
						£	s.	d.
Civil List	Exchequer					27,697	3	4	½
						5,585	9	8
	Chancery					6,602	8	11	¾
	Common Pleas					5,051	17	3	½
	State Officers					10,705	2	6	¼
	Incidents					25,756	14	1	¾
	Custom Officers					5,597	6	6	¼
	Perpetuities					1,782	13	6	¼
	Appeals					1,500	0	0
	Non-conforming Ministers					3,375	0	0
	Commissioners and Overseers of Barracks					3,737	10	0
	Admiralty					750	0	0
	Commissioners of Imprest Accounts					5,500	0	0
	Pensions					149,108	15	7	¾
	French Pensions					540	14	6
	Concordatum					5,000	0	0
Military Establishment	General Officers					35,447	18	7
	Army	Subsistence				294,294	19	5	¼
		Clothing				44,426	17	10
		Arrears				28,308	16	1	¼
	Warrant Men	Subsistence				12,144	7	6	¾
		Clothing				4,053	2	11	¼
	Additional Pay for Dublin Duty					4,613	18	7
	Additional Pay in Lieu of Stoppages					10,141	9	1	¾
	Battle-Axes					2,037	1	0
	Garrisons					4,028	9	0
	Incidents					193	13	11	½
	Fire and Candles for Guards and Garrisons					166	0	0
	Pensions					8,452	3	11	¼
	Half-pay Officers					23,652	2	10	¾
	Widows of Officers					7,027	13	9
	Ordnance					21,239	7	6	¼
	Contingencies					3,000	0	0
	Barracks					13,336	10	0
Extraordinaries	King's Letters					121,676	18	2
	Parliamentary Grants					99,822	7	2
	Lottery Prizes					163,110	0	0
	Linen Manufacture	Bounty				4,000	0	0
		Further bounty				10,000	0	0
		Premiums on flax-seed				7,250	0	0
	Exceedings on	Concordatum				65,889	9	7	¼
		Military Contingencies				13,506	3	2	¼
		Barracks				22,583	0	0	¼
	Prizage					4,123	14	2
	Commissioners of Public Accounts					1,600	0	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan	Principal of	Treasury Bills, out of Ordinary Revenue			99,908	6	8
			Debentures, ditto [out of Ordinary Revenue]			130,350	0	0
			Debentures, out of Loan Fund			48,610	0	0
		Interest on				57,345	17	5	½
			Treasury Bills			29,971	12	5
		Life Annuities				46,527	0	0
		Bank Annuity				24,000	0	0
		Short Annuities				2,231	12	6
	Linen Manufacture					0	0	0
	Bounty on linen and canvas exports					0	0	0
	Tillage					15,006	2	9	½
	Lagan Navigation					692	10	10	¾
	Improving Dublin					8,000	0	0
	Duncannon Fort					0	0	0
	Irish fisheries					0	0	0
	North-West fisheries					0	0	0
	Trinity College					0	0	0
Balances at Lady-day, 1788	Ordinary Revenue					84,819	8	5
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				118,298	17	11	¼
		Linen				7,960	0	0
		Linen, bounty on canvas exports				773	16	11	¾
		Tillage				3,428	7	5
		Duncannon Fort				1,369	17	9	¾
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		North-West fisheries				10	0	0
		Trinity College				256	6	3
TOTAL Payments for 1787/1788:						1,972,050	1	5	¼

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