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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14

Public Expenditure. — Expenditure

Public Expenditure.

Note.—A summary table of the details of British National Expenditure during the Beaconsfield and Gladstone Administrations will be found further on.

Expenditure.

XII.—Public Dbbt.—Finance Accounts, pp. 9 and 44 to 48.
Great BritainInterest.
Three per cent. Consols £9,707,615
Three per cent. Reduced 2,327,362
New 3 per cent. 4,728,785
New 3½ per cents. 7,901
2½ per cent. Annuities 656,824
2½ per cent. Annuities 124,762
Exchequer Bonds of 1853, 16 Vic. c 23 10,457
17,563,706
Ireland.
Three per cent. Consolidated Annuities 112,844
Three per cent. Reduced Annuities 2,727
New 3 per cents. 683,994
2½ per cents. 17,478
2¾ per cents. 3,052
820,096
Total Interest of the Funded Debt £18,383,803
Interest of Government Debt to Bank of England 330,453
Ditto to Bank of Ireland 78,923
409,376
Management of Funded Debt by Bank of England 191,555
Ditto by Bank of Ireland 12,876
Management of Unfunded Debt by Bank of England 1,403
Same Banks for manufacturing Treasury Bills and Stock Certificates 12,060
217,895
£19,011,074
Terminable Annuities.
Life Annuities 1,038,210
Exchequer Annuities 1,707
Annuities for various terms of years 28,771
Ditto (Crimean) expiring 5th April, 1885 68,000
Ditto Post Office Savings Banks expiring in 1885 4,992
South Sea Annuity expiring 1894 6,907
Red Sea and India Telegraph Co. expiring 4th August, 1908 36,000
1,174,586
Annuities created under Mr. Childers' Act (1883) in lieu of cancelled Stock.
Expiring 1888, (Trustee Banks) 1,200,000
Expiring 1892, Trustee 200,000
P.O. Banks 200,000
Expiring 1893, Trustee 300,000
P.O. Banks 500,000
Expiring 1898, Trustee 900,000
P.O.Banks 300,000
Expiring 1903, Chancery 2,665,835
Trustee 362,104
P.O. Banks 321,918
Annuities suspended one year by——Interest only Act 48 and 49 Vict. c. 43 £6,949,857 £2,276,879
Expiring 1903, To cover possible loss from conversion of £4,000,000 Consols into 2½ per cents. 35,121
Expiring 1934, To extinguish increase in Debt caused by Conversion of Stock 15,547
Carried forward £22,513,207
Total Interest on Terminable Annuities, £3,602,133.
Brought forward £22,513,207
Floating Debt.
Interest on Exchequer Bills, &c. £174,479
Ditto on Local Loans 478,340
New Sinking Fund nil
Exchequer Bonds (Suez) 199,979
Trustee Savings Banks Deficiency Annuity, expiring 1908 83,672
936,471
Total Interest, Management, &c., of Public Debt £23,449,678
XIII.—Army and Navy.—Finance Accounts, pages 9 and 84.
Army (including Purchase Commission) £17,027,085
Vote of Credit (Naval and Military Operations) 9,451,000
Grant to India (Afghan War) 250,000
Navy Services 12,660,509
Total War £39,388,593
XIV.—Revenue Departments.—Finance Accounts, pages 14 and 90. Collection and Management.
Customs £956,452
Inland Revenue 1,796,211
Post Office 4,793,744
Ditto, Packet Service 731,014
Telegraph Service 1,745,000
10,021,422
Crown Lands, paid out of gross revenue, page 20:—
Salaries and Allowances to Deputy Surveyors, &c. 6,478
Percentages and Allowances to Receivers 8,439
Payments to Churches, Schools, &c. 2,180
Salaries of Wardens, Rangers, &c. 2,617
Improvement and Repair of Estates 43,269
Ditto Buildings, Roads, &c. 40,401
103,385
Total Revenue Departments £10,124,807
Class I. XV.—Public Works and Buildings.—Finance Accounts, pages 84 and 85.
Admiralty and War Office (new) £8,000
British Museum (buildings) 9,149
County Courts (buildings) 31,876
Courts of Justice, &c. (New) 2,016
Diplomatic and Consular Buildings (abroad) 35,911
Disturnpiked and Main Roads 221,965
Disturnpiked and Main Roads (Scotland) 35,000
Dover Harbour 300
Furniture, Public Offices 20,223
Gordon Monument 500
Harbours of Refuge, &c., under Board of Trade 8,475
Houses of Parliament (buildings) 42,826
Lighthouses Abroad 18,086
Marlborough House (buildings) 7,103
Metropolitan Fire Brigade 10,000
Metropolitan Police Courts 7,006
Peterhead Harbour 16,050
Public Buildings, Great Britain 166,567
Public Buildings, Ireland 208,840
Public Offices Site nil
Rates on Government Property (U.K.) 215,977
Revenue Departments (buildings) 259,464
Royal Palaces 32,007
Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens 109,941
Royal University (Ireland) Buildings 12,800
Science and Art Department (buildings) 12,970
Science and Art Department (Museum Buildings) Dublin 14,729
Sheriff Court Houses, Scotland 8,498
Surveys of United Kingdom 250,438
Total Works and Buildings £1,766,717
page 75
Class II. XVI.—Salaries and Expenses of Civil Departments. Finance Accounts, pages 85 and 86.
Bankruptcy Department (Board of Trade) £500
Board of Supervision, &c., Scotland 28,662
Board of Trade, &c. 103,754
Charitable Donations and Bequests Office, Ireland 2,008
Chief Secretary, Ireland, Office of 42,253
Chief Secretary, Scotland, Office of 3,430
Colonial Office, &c. 39,271
Commissions—
Charity, &c. 40,775
Civil Service 33,597
Land (Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe) 20,718
Lunacy, England 14,848
Lunacy, Scotland 5,650
Public Works Loan 9,241
Exchequer and Audit Department 56,485
Exchequer and other Offices in Scotland 6,076
Fishery Board, Scotland 22,907
Foreign Office 70,927
General Register Office, England 48,381
General Register Office, Scotland 5,894
General Register Office, Ireland 15,947
Home Office, &c. 95,187
House of Commons Offices 52,059
House of Lords Offices 42,665
Household of Lord Lieutenant, Ireland 7,569
Local Government Board (England) 447,292
Local Government Board Ireland 140,969
Mercantile Marine Fund (grant in aid) 40,000
Mint 68,570
National Debt Office 14,581
Patent Office, &c. 45,099
Paymaster-General's Office 25,512
Privy Council Office, &c. 46,463
Privy Seal Office
Public Record Office, Great Britain 21,991
Public Record Office, Ireland 6,561
Registry of Friendly Societies (U.K.) 7,267
Secret Service 45,601
Stationery Office, Printing, Binding, &c. 561,960
Treasury, &c. 54,910
Valuation and Boundary Survey, Ireland. 23,403
Woods, Forests, &c., Office of 23,804
Works and Public Buildings, Office of 47,006
Works and Public Buildings, (Ireland), Office of 53,067
£2,442,862
Great Britain.—Paid out of Consolidated Fund. Pages 65 to 69.
Clergy, Scotch £17,040
Clergy, West Indies 7,440
Compensations under Copyright Act 3,029
Exchequer and Audit Department 8,500
Highland Schools, Scotland 899
House of Commons, Speaker 5,000
Inspectors of Anatomy 1,025
Miscellaneous 9,569
Total Great Britain £47,502
Ireland.
Inspectors of Anatomy 470
Lord Lieutenant 20,000
Queen's Colleges 21,000
Miscellaneous 816
Total, Ireland, £42,286 89,789
Total Public Departments £2,532,651
Class III. XVII.—Law and Justice. England.—Finance Accounts, page 87.
County Courts £417,692
Criminal Prosecutions, &c. 162,054
Central Office of Supreme Court 421,527
Land Registry Office 5,418
Law Charges 80,107
Metropolitan Police 644,141
Police Courts, London and Sheemess 15,240
Police, County and Borough (Gt. Britain) 987,737
Public Prosecutor's Office
Revising Barristers (England) 27,700
Special Police 39,547
Wreck Commissioners' Office 12,662
Carried forward £2,713,825
Brought forward £2,713,825
Paid out of Consolidated Fund (pages 70 to 82). Courts of Justice.—England and Wales.
3 Lords of Appeal £18,000
2 Judicial Committee 8,000
6 Judges of Appeal 30,959
6 Judges of High Court (Chancery) 31,000
15 Judges of High Court (Queen's Bench) 77,511
2 Judges of High Court (Probate, &c.) 10,000
34 individuals. £175,470
Middlesex Sessions 750
County Court Judges 84,496
Metropolitan Magistrates 36,500
£296,216
Scotland.
13 Judges of Session 42,175
County Sheriffs 14,749
Sheriffs' Substitutes 36,597
Sheriffs' Clerks 680
£94,101
Ireland.
2 Lords Justices 8,000
6 Judges of High Ct. (Chanccry) 21,382
4 Judges of High (Queen's Bench) 15,874
3 Judges of High (Common Pleas) 11,613
4 Judges of High (Exchequer) 13,113
1 Judges of High (Probate, &c.) 3,500
1 Judges of High (Land) 3,500
1 Judges of High (Admiralty) 1,200
21 individuals. £78,182
Chairmen of Sessions 32,160
Circuit Expenses 2,400
£112,742
503,059
Scotland.—Finance Accounts, page 87.
Courts of Law and Justice 61,274
Ld. Advoc. and Criminal Proceedings 63,786
Register House Departments 35,294
160,354
Ireland.—Finance Accounts, page 87.
Admiralty Court Registry 1,278
Bankruptcy Court 9,851
Constabulary 1,374,619
County Court Officers, &c. 105,278
Dublin Metropolitan Police 146,216
Supreme Court of Judicature 90,401
Land Commission 57,190
Law Charges and Prosecutions 69,346
Registry of Deeds 16,194
Registry of Judgments 2,318
1,872,697
Prisons. England and Wales.—Finance Accounts, page 87.
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum 28,927
Convict Establishments, England and Colonies, &c. 866,628
Prisons, England and Wales 456,685
Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Great Britain 280,840
1,133,080
Scotland.—Finance Accounts, page 87.
Prisons and Judicial Statistics 106,844
Ireland.—Finance Accounts, page 87.
Prisons 149,186
Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum 6,847
Reformatory and Industrial Schools 93,144
249,177
Total Law and Justice (exclusive of Annuities, Compensations, &c.) £6,739,037
Class IV. XVIII.—Education, Science, and Art.—Finance Accounts, page 88.
British Museum 159,896
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition (Report) 4,440
Education, England and Wales 3,310,826
Education, Scotland 498,720
Education, Ireland 811,128
Commissioners Endowed Schools (Ireland) 614
Learned Societies (United Kingdom) 21,400
National Gallery (England) 8,946
National Gallery (Ireland) 2,455
National Gallery &c. (Scotland) 2,100
National Portrait Gallery 2,619
Queen's Colleges (Ireland) 6,762
Royal Irish Academy 1,550
Science and Art Department (United Kingdom) 391,442
Teachers' Pension Offices (Ireland) 1,979
Transit of Venus 77
University College. Wales 11,250
University of London 12,936
Universities, &c. in Scotland 19,313
Total Education, Science, and Art £5,268,452
page 76
Class V. XIX.—Diplomatic, Colonial, and Consular. Finance Accounts, page 89.
Colonics, Grants in Aid £42,614
Consular Services 184,103
Cyprus, Grant in Aid 15,000
Diplomatic Services 265,755
South Africa and St. Helena 111,140
Subsidies to Telegraph Companies 35,300
Suez Canal (British Directors) 4,693
Suppression of the Slave Trade 14,483
Tonnage Bounties, &c.
Total Colonial and Consular £673,088
Class VI. XX.—Superannuations, Retired Allowances, and Gratuities for Charitable and other Purposes. Finance Accounts, page 89.
Charitable Allowances, &c., Great Britain £2,500
Charitable Allowances, &c., Ireland 2,898
Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland 16,657
Merchant Seamen's Fund, Pensions, &c. 19,684
Pauper Lunatics, England anl Wales 478,445
Pauper Lunatics, Scotland 85,117
Pauper Lunatics, Ireland 98,199
Friendly Societies, deficiency 51,021
Superannuations and Retired Allowances 457,840
Total Superannuations, &c. £1,212,362
Class VII. XXI.—Miscblianeous Services. Finance Accunts, page 89.
Civil Contingencies Fund, Repayments to £349
Commissions and Committees temporary 23,108
Miscellaneous Expenses 6,548
Registration of Voters (U.K.) 66,300
Total Miscellaneous aid Special £96,305
Marriage Portion of Princess Beatrice £30,000
XXII.—Civil List.—Fnance Accounts, page 51. Sums appropriated out of Consolidated Fund, per Act 1 Vic. cap. 2.
Her Majesty's Privy Purse, Chss I. £60,000
Salaries of Her Majesty's Household, and Retired Allowances, Class II. 131,260
Expenses of Her Majesty's Household, Class III. 172,500
Royal Bounty, Alms, and Special Services, Class IV. 13,200
Unappropriated, Class VI. 8,040
385,000
Pensions granted under the above Act (limited to £1,200 per annum) 25,020
Total Civil List £410,020
XXIII.—Annuities, Pbnsions, &c., Charged on Consolidated Fund. Great Britain.—Finance Accounts, pages 52 to 64.
Annuities to the Royal Family £154,737
Pensions:—
Diplomatic Services (Grants prior to April, 1869) 5,808
Hereditary Pensions—(Military and Naval) 30,856
Judicial Services—England and Wales 35,499
Compensations (Chancery) 1,146
Compensations (Queen's Bench) 608
Compensations (Common Pleas) 78
Compensations (Exchequer) 1,040
Compensations (Requests) 4,243
Compensations (Sundry) 10
Compensations (Marshal sea) 754
Compensations (Ecclesiastical and Prerogative) 45,255
Compensations (Record, &c.) 175
Pensions for Judicial Services, Scotland 8,311
CompensationsJudicial Services, 5
Pensions for Judicial Services, Ireland 17,956
Compensations (Queen's Bench) 1,584
Compensations (Common Pleas) 133
Compensations (Exchequer) 685
117,482
£308,882
Political and Civil Services, Great Britain 18,616
Schomberg Heirs (Commuted) 720
Servants of Queen Charlotte 42
Pensions formerly on the Civil List of George III., George IV., and William IV., Hereditary Revenues of Scotland, and 4½ per cent. Duties... 5,820
Ireland.
Sufferers by the Rebellion in 1798 21
Total Annuities, Pensions, &c. £334,101
XXIV.—Special Payments. Finance Accounts, page 83.
Interest, &c., on Russo-Dutch Loan £52,641
Towards the support of Greenwich Hospital 4,000
Secret Service, formerly charged on Civil List 10,000
Receiver-General Duchy of Lancaster, Annuity in lieu of Prisage and Butlerage on Wines imported into that County 803
Receiver-General Duchy of Cornwall, Compensation for loss of Duties on the Coinage of Tin 16,217
Compensation for loss of office on the abolition of Duties on the Coinage of Tin 80
Annuity to H.M. Commissioners of Woods (Public Offices Site Act, 1882) 16,244
Annuities for 10 years to redeem Perpetual Pensions and Payments 51,430
£151,418
Annuity under Indian Army Pension Deficiency Act, 1885 £150,000