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Treasury Account 1789/1790

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1789 to 25th March 1790
						£	s.	d.
Balances at Lady-day, 1789						118,933	9	0	¾
	Appropriated Duties	Loan				143,852	5	11
						8,310	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
Applicable to the Civil List, Military Establishment, and Extraordinaries						867,136	19	10	½
	Quit Rents					253	13	5	¼
	Casualties					2,991	14	2
	Dismissed Collectors					149	0	4	½
	Stamps					41,676	1	7	¼
	Stamps, applicable to Lottery expenses					4,880	8	2
	Postage					14,323	4	3	½
	Duty on wrought plate					1,360	7	7
	4s. Tax on	Salaries and pensions				4,643	3	3
		Profits of employments				1,034	7	2
	Public Coal Yards					1,763	13	2
	Poundage Fee, one year to Lady-day 1790					22,481	19	7	¼
	Pells Fees, one year to Lady-day 1790					4,427	8	7
	Vice-Treasurers and Clerks of the Pells, their ancient salaries, one year to Christmas 1789					105	0	0
						4,000	0	0
	From the Commissioners of Barracks, etc. the net produce of the sale of old and cast furniture belonging to the Castle of Dublin					135	17	2	½
	On the Lottery of	1789, to complete the subscription				190,000	0	0
						140,125	0	0
						150,000	0	0
						50,000	0	0
						376,416	0	0
						90,000	0	0
						62,462	0	0
						95,000	0	0
						95,000	0	0
Appropriated Funds						183,947	6	4	¾
						400	0	0
						142	10	0
						0	0	0
	From the ordinary revenue, out of the duty on coffee					350	0	0
						2,089	3	1	¾
						438	8	0
						2,555	19	0
						687	15	3
						8,000	0	0
	Duncannon Fort					0	0	0
						0	0	0
						0	0	0
	Trinity College					289	0	7
TOTAL Receipts for 1789/1790:						2,697,168	6	6	¼

Payments						Irish £
						25th March 1789 to 25th March 1790
						£	s.	d.
Civil List	Exchequer					25,535	4	10	¾
						5,949	5	1
	Chancery					6,918	16	2	¼
	Common Pleas					5,300	0	0
	State Officers					9,883	9	10	¾
	Incidents					21,223	7	1	¼
	Custom Officers					4,912	17	1	¼
	Perpetuities					1,243	3	3
	Appeals					1,500	0	0
	Non-conforming Ministers					2,575	0	0
	Commissioners and Overseers of Barracks					3,105	13	5
	Admiralty					650	0	0
	Commissioners of Imprest Accounts					3,625	0	0
	Pensions					76,245	9	10	¾
	French Pensions					611	19	9
	Concordatum					5,000	0	0
Military Establishment	General Officers					32,631	11	8
	Army	Subsistence				317,936	9	10	½
		Clothing				55,838	8	11	¼
		Arrears				30,981	5	4
		Half-yearly allowances				20,912	16	8	¼
		Contingencies				4,784	10	6
		Allowance in lieu of stoppages				5,285	7	7	¾
	Additional Pay for Dublin Duty					5,905	14	0
	Battle-Axes					1,891	18	4
	Garrisons					3,868	5	0
	Incidents					460	0	0
	Fire and Candles for Guards and Garrisons					166	0	0
	Pensions					5,399	15	10	¼
	Half-pay Officers					18,516	0	6
	Widows of Officers					4,007	19	7
	Ordnance					21,361	14	7	½
	Contingencies					3,000	0	0
	Barracks					13,336	10	0
Extraordinaries	King's Letters					108,272	5	11
	Parliament Payments					97,236	17	0	½
	Lottery Prizes					199,530	0	0
	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				46,752	14	10	½
		Military Contingencies				10,467	17	4	½
		Barracks				19,956	16	4
	Prizage					3,092	15	7	½
	Commissioners of Public Accounts					1,280	0	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan	Principal of	Treasury Bills, out of Ordinary Revenue			265,450	0	0
			Debentures, out of Ordinary Revenue			715,550	0	0
			Debentures, out of Loan Fund			305	0	0
		Interest on				52,084	9	0
			Treasury Bills			27,099	7	2
		Life Annuities				46,931	15	0
		Bank Annuity				24,000	0	0
		Short Annuities				2,176	17	6
	Linen Manufacture					8,108	1	0	¾
	Linen bounty on canvas exported					773	16	11
	Tillage					5,125	1	8	¾
	Lagan Navigation					687	15	3	½
	Improving Dublin					8,000	0	0
	Duncannon Fort					482	10	9	½
Balances at Lady-day, 1790	Appropriated Duties	Loan				175,744	13	8	¼
		Linen				551	18	11	¼
		Tillage				0	0	0
		Duncannon Fort				887	7	0	¼
		Irish fisheries				4,073	3	2
		North-West fisheries				10	0	0
		Trinity College				827	1	10
	Ordinary Revenue					129,896	5	2	½
TOTAL Payments for 1789/1790:						2,697,168	6	7	¼

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