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Treasury Account 1798/1799

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

Receipts						Irish £
						25th March 1798 to 25th March 1799
						£	s.	d.
Balances	Remains on 25th March 1798	Appropriated Funds	Linen			2,772	12	0
			Improving Dublin			2,184	7	6
			Irish Fisheries			30,090	0	4
			Light house on the Isle of Arran			1,251	9	6	½
			Light houses round the coast			5,846	3	9
						950	0	0
		Consolidated Fund				280,916	3	1
		(Deduct) Loan Fund deficient				-96,248	-16	-9
						0	0	0
Consolidated Fund	Ordinary Revenue					652,338	4	7
	Quit Rents					136	10	5	¼
	Casualties					3,155	6	11
	Dismissed Collectors					150	0	0
	Stamps					76,764	7	6	¾
	Postage					23,918	7	3	½
	Duty on Wrought Plate					1,103	6	3
	Public Coal Yards					2,925	17	6
	Wool Licences					105	0	0
	Four Shilling Tax on Salaries and Pensions					7,578	12	0	½
	Four Shilling Tax on Profits of Employments					1,138	8	0	¼
	Sale of Quit Rents					5,121	11	8	¾
	Poundage Fee in one Year to Lady day 1799					24,678	4	3
	Pells Fee, same Time					4,935	13	8
	On Debentures at 4l. per Cent. per Annum (1300l. from 25th April 17971 and 1300l. from 22d March 1798) issued for the Encouragement of Inland Navigations					2,600	0	0
	Loan from Great Britain at 6l. 4a. 11d. per Cent. per Annum from sundry Dates, payable in London 2,000,000l. British part of 2,366,746l. 13s. 4d. provided for in Aid of the Supplies, Session 1798					2,166,666	13	4
	On Debentures at 5I. per Cent. per Annum from 25th March 1798, (amounting to 328,000l.) to complete ditto					200,080	0	0
	On Debentures at 5I. per Cent. per Annum from 25th March 1798, (for which Debentures are issued to the Amount of 1,715,950l.) provided for, Session 1798					1,046,729	10	0
	On Treasury Bills at 5l. per Cent. per Annum from 24th July 1798 issued pursuant to a Vote of Credit, Session 1798, for Relief of suffering Loyalists					100,000	0	0
	On Treasury Bills at 5l. per Cent. per Annum from 24th December 1798, issed pursuant to a Vote of Credit, Selfion 1798 towards the Defence of the Kingdom					500,000	0	0
	On Treasury Bills at 6l. per Cent. per Annum from 25th March 1798 issued to the Grand Canal Company pursuant to Act of Parliament, Session, 1798					30,000	0	0
	On first Lottery of 1798, in full of the Sub?cription					177,125	0	0
	On second Lottery of 1798, ditto					177,125	0	0
	From the Government of Great Britain, per Puget and Bainbridge, on account of public Services, 399,779l. 1s. 11d. British					433,094	0	4
	Voluntary Contributions towards the Defence of the Country					6,175	1	8	¼
						14,148	14	10
	From Sundries, part of the Advances made by the late Deputy Vice Treasurer by Order of Government					3,970	16	0
Appropriated Funds	Loan, from the several Collectors					1,065,469	17	7
	Ditto, Gain by Exchange on Sums received from Great Britain					2,630	10	3	¼
	Linen					974	8	1
	Lagan Navigation					1,199	0	0
	Improving Dublin					8,287	5	9	½
	Irish Fisheries					6,629	14	4
						678	0	0
	Voluntary Contributions					56,065	11	11
	Ditto, transferred from Consolidated Fund					70,090	0	11	¼
TOTAL Receipts for 1798/1799:						7,101,550	14	9

Issues						Irish £
						25th March 1798 to 25th March 1799
						£	s.	d.
Consolidated Fund	Civil List	State Officers				59,778	0	8	¾
		Chancery				8,190	1	11	¼
		Exchequer				26,176	4	5	¾
		King's Bench				6,498	1	2	¾
		Common Pleas				5,300	0	0
		Custom Officers				5,502	14	1
		Incidents				2,857	17	7	¾
		Commission of Appeals				1,680	18	6	½
		Court of Admiralty				625	0	0
		Office of lmprest Accounts				4,451	8	5	¼
		Barracks and Board of Works				2,865	18	8	¼
		Nonconforming Ministers				7,705	0	9	½
		Secret Service				4,999	19	11
		Concordatum				6,474	1	0
	Pensions					110,433	16	4	½
	Military Purposes	Army and Army Augmentation				1,142,086	3	1
		Army abroad				121,109	19	6	¾
		Additional Pay for Dublin Duty				7,999	19	1
		General and General Staff Officers				38,685	1	2	¼
		Muster-Master General				6,742	14	7
		Garrisons				6,764	16	3	¼
		Recruiting, &c.				7,374	3	11
		Half-pay Officers				12,602	8	2
		Widows of Officers				2,473	16	3	¼
		Extra Expense of Forage				98,489	11	7	½
		Ordnance				399,851	10	9	½
		Barracks				236,000	0	0
		Royal Hospital				29,586	4	7	¼
		Royal Infirmary				2,795	6	5	¼
		Militia				801,385	10	8	½
		District Corps				589,325	5	7	½
		Commissariat Establishment				89,056	6	11
		Medical Board				4,761	12	7	½
		Medicaments for Regiments of the Line				1,040	0	0
		Bat and Forage				30,651	8	0
		Manning the Fleet				24,948	8	11
	Vote of Credit					382,805	8	0	½
	Permanent Grants	Public Infirmaries				3,275	0	0
		Public Coal Yards				3,061	11	6	¼
		Army Baggage				29,851	2	8	½
		Lottery Expenses				9,172	8	3	¾
		Police Establishment				14,761	9	5	¼
		Inspector General of Prisons				200	0	0
		Inland Navigations				32,600	0	0
		Transportation of Felons				9,781	14	1
		Fees on auditing Treasury Accounts				1,377	6	4	½
		Imprest Office				927	16	8	¼
		Secret Service in detecting trealonable Conspiracies				16,494	16	9	½
		Annuities and Compensation Allowances				13,496	13	5	½
		Judges additional Salaries				19,769	17	6	¾
	Annual Grants	Officers of the House of Commons				10,478	1	4
		Public Officers for several Services				2,130	0	0
		Public Hospitals and Schools				44,175	15	8
		Miscellaneous Services				100,201	6	6
		Linen and Hempen Manufacture				24,412	10	0
		Board of First Fruits				5,000	0	0
		Dublin Society				5,500	0	0
		Corporation for Paving and Lighting Dublin				10,000	0	0
		Commissioners of Wide Streets				4,500	0	0
		Roman Catholic Seminary at Maynooth				8,247	8	5
		Reprinting Journals of the House of Commons				10,661	14	0
	Prizage					6,185	11	4
	Lottery Prizes					297,842	0	0
	Principal of Treasury Bills					587,300	0	0
	Sinking Fund					140,540	12	0
	Relief of Loyalists					32,917	1	8	¼
	The Government of Great Britain, so much received therefrom on account of public Services, to be repaid at a convenient Time					142,603	11	18
	Voluntary Contributions transferred as an appropriated Fund					70,090	0	11	¼
Appropriated Funds	Loan	Interest on	Government Stock			246,440	2	2
			Debentures			191,978	18	10
			Treasury Bills			45,303	14	10
		Life Annuities				47,980	19	11
		Bank Annuity				73,125	0	0
		Long Annuities				8,063	10	5
		Short Annuities				52,015	0	2
		Discount on prompt Payment of Loan Deposites and other Charges				21,960	4	5	½
	Linen					1,821	10	7
	Lagan Navigation					1,199	0	0
	Improving Dublin					8,000	0	0
	King's Inns					950	0	0
	Voluntary Contributions					121,271	0	10	¾
Balances	Remains on 25th March 1799	Appropriated Funds	Loan			284,984	0	3	¾
			Linen			1,925	9	6
			Improving Dublin			2,471	13	3	½
			Irish Fisheries			36,719	14	8
			Light House on Isle of Arran			1,251	9	6	½
			Lighthouses round the Coast			5,846	3	9
			King's Inns			678	0	0
			Voluntary Contributions			4,884	11	11	½
		Consolidated Fund deficient				-4,950	-1	-2	¾
TOTAL Issues for 1798/1799:						7,101,550	15	9	¼

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