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Treasury Account 1788/1789

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1788 to 25th March 1789
						£	s.	d.
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	½
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		North-West fisheries				10	0	0
		Trinity College				256	6	3
Applicable to the Civil List, Military Establishment, and Extraordinaries						773,491	8	4	¾
	Quit Rents					215	19	6	¼
	Casualties					2,370	15	0	½
	Dismissed Collectors					844	1	3	½
	Stamps					41,373	0	5	½
	Stamps, from Dismissed Collectors					120	10	0
	Stamps, applicable to Lottery expenses					4,118	16	8	½
	Postage					11,919	14	3
	4s. Tax on	Salaries and pensions				9,041	18	2	¼
		Profits of employments				1,210	11	0	¼
	Public Coal Yards					213	2	2
	Poundage Fee, one year to Lady-day 1789					21,229	7	9
	Pells Fees, one year to Lady-day 1789					4,180	5	7	¼
	Vice-Treasurers and Clerks of the Pells, their ancient salaries, one year to Christmas 1788					105	0	0
	From several Lottery Office-keepers, in consideration of his Majesty's free pardon to them					8,000	0	0
	From the Tillage Fund, so much advanced out of the Ordinary Revenue to the creditors of the late Navigation Board					1,711	7	3
						8,000	0	0
						425	16	7
	From the Earl of Tyrone, in full of the purchase money of the lands of Knockroe in the County of Waterford					34,000	0	0
	From the agents of the 20th, 21st, and 24th Regiments of Foot, the balances due on their non-effective accounts to 31st March 1788					1,020	10	3	½
	From several Regiments of Cavalry, the balances due on their stock purse accounts to same time					6,725	14	3
	From several Regiments of Foot, the balances due on their non-effective accounts to same time					4,977	8	6	½
	On the Lottery of	1788, in full of the subscription				200,000	0	0
		1789, in part of the subscription				10,000	0	0
	On Debentures, at					12,000	0	0
						50,000	0	0
						150,000	0	0
						50,000	0	0
						41,824	0	0
						10,000	0	0
	On Treasury Bills, at		From 24th June, 1788, subscribed pursuant to Act of Parliament, Session 1788			100,000	0	0
			From 29th September 1788, subscribed pursuant to Act of Parliament Session 1788			38,900	0	0
						100,000	0	0
						3,287	10	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan	From the Revenue Collectors				5,000	0	0
		From Dismissed Collectors				180,541	1	9	¾
						204	0	0
						400	0	0
	Linen	From the Revenue Collectors				253	10	0
						0	0	0
	Tillage	From the Revenue Collectors				0	0	0
		Duty on wrought plate from the Assay Master				7,067	0	2
		From Dismissed Collectors				1,766	13	6
						47	10	3
						319	19	0
	Duncannon Fort					8,000	0	0
						0	0	0
						0	0	0
						0	0	0
						281	14	11	½
TOTAL Receipts for 1788/1789:						2,131,196	4	11	½

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1788 to 25th March 1789
						£	s.	d.
Civil List	Exchequer					26,679	3	1	¾
						5,949	5	1
	Chancery					7,002	3	2	½
	Common Pleas					5,300	0	0
	State Officers					7,168	16	8
	Incidents					18,809	17	3	½
	Custom Officers					4,034	3	3	¼
	Perpetuities					1,243	7	11	¾
	Appeals					1,500	0	0
	Non-conforming Ministers					2,025	0	0
	Commissioners and Overseers of Barracks					2,662	10	0
	Admiralty					700	0	0
	Commissioners of Imprest Accounts					3,383	10	1	¾
	Pensions					66,137	11	9	¾
	French Pensions					250	9	10
	Concordatum					5,000	0	0
Military Establishment	General Officers					34,030	1	6
	Army	Subsistence				295,522	9	5	¼
		Clothing				55,459	1	3	¾
		Arrears				36,719	14	4	½
		Half-yearly allowances				10,167	8	3
		Contingencies				3,530	19	0
		Allowance in lieu of stoppages				4,457	9	0	¼
	Warrant Men	Subsistence				1,855	17	9	¼
		Clothing				5,072	6	7
	Additional Pay for Dublin Duty					4,596	0	10
	Battle-Axes					1,891	18	4
	Garrisons					3,732	9	0
	Incidents					460	0	0
	Fire and Candles for Guards and Garrisons					166	0	0
	Pensions					4,230	2	6	¼
	Half-pay Officers					19,669	4	11	¼
	Widows of Officers					1,773	19	1	¼
	Ordnance					21,047	14	7	½
	Contingencies					3,000	0	0
	Barracks					13,336	10	0
Extraordinaries	King's Letters					98,248	15	4
	Parliamentary Grants					99,087	17	7
	Lottery Prizes					197,940	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				40,813	7	10
		Military Contingencies				13,685	7	11	¼
		Barracks				19,893	8	9	¼
	Prizage					4,123	14	2
	Commissioners of Public Accounts					640	0	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan	Principal of	Treasury Bills, out of Ordinary Revenue			237,475	0	0
			Debentures, ditto [out of Ordinary Revenue]			265,220	0	0
			Debentures, out of Loan Fund			660	0	0
		Interest on				48,709	4	5
			Treasury Bills			31,105	19	4	½
		Life Annuities				49,107	5	0
		Bank Annuity				24,000	0	0
		Short Annuities				2,262	15	0
	Linen Manufacture					0	0	0
	Bounty on linen and canvas exports					0	0	0
	Tillage					12,267	19	9
	Lagan Navigation					319	19	0
	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
	Protestant schools					18	0	0
Balances at Lady-day, 1789	Ordinary Revenue					119,183	9	0	¼
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				143,852	5	11	½
		Linen				7,960	0	0
		Linen, bounty on canvas exports				773	16	11
		Tillage				41	11	7
		Duncannon Fort				1,369	17	9	¾
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		North-West fisheries				10	0	0
		Trinity College				538	1	2	½
TOTAL Payments for 1788/1789:						2,131,196	4	10	½

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