Monarch

GEORGE III

Year

1797

Title

37 Geo. III, c. 4,

Description

An Act for securing the Payment of the Annuities and of the Interest upon the principal Sums therein provided for and towards the Discharge of such Principal Sums in such Manner as therein is directed and for enabling the Officers of His Majesty's Treasury to receive certain Sums for a limited Time in Manner therein mentioned and for granting to His Majesty a certain Sum of Money out of the Consolidated Fund and for applying a certain Sum of Money therein mentioned for the Service of the Year One thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven and for other Purposes.

Classification

Revenue - Civil List, national debt, annuities, debentures, Treasury bills, etc., national debt set at £3,395,696, Budget £4,395,686 3s 4 1/2d - £3,324,500 14s 6 1/2d for armed forces (detailed); £21,600 Linen Board; £5,000 First Fruits; £5,500 Dublin Society; £5,000 Dublin Corporation, paving, cleansing and lighting streets; £37,740 public hospitals, schools, etc., £13,000 charter schools; £5,000 to Foundling Hospital/Workhouse, £12,000 Dublin Corporation for poor and House of Industry; £1,000 Hibernian Marine Society; £2,000 Hibernian School, £4,740 Westmorland Lock Hospital; £9,758 1s 4d House of Commons - salaries etc., £4,000 Speaker, £500 J. M. Mason, Chairman of Supply and Ways and Means, various other named officials including £80 to Albina Freemantle for coal and candles, £2,130 to several public officers including £300 to Stephen Moore, £800 John Tydd, 200 J. C. Beresford, also various other named officials, £154,457 7s 5 3/4d in small miscellaneous grants (listed), interest on debentures, Treasury bills, etc. [rv]