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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 14
Class III.—Law and Justlce
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Class III.—Law and Justlce.
| Service. | 1886-87. | 1885-86. | Compared with 1885-86 | Cash Extra Receipts Payable to Exchequer. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (Grants in Session of 1885.) | Increase. | Decrease. | 1886-87. | 1885-86. | ||
| England. | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ | £ |
| Law Charges | 84,974 | 91,135 | ... | 6,161 | 3,490 | 3,400 |
| Criminal Prosecutions | 159,277 | 164,135 | ... | 4,858 | 40 | 40 |
| *Supreme Court of Judicature | 422,219 | 421,673 | 546 | ... | 63,200 | 59,200 |
| Wreck Commission | 13,430 | 13,530 | ... | 100 | 50 | 50 |
| †Country Courts | 428,804 | 436,087 | ... | 7,283 | 410,000 | 390,000 |
| Land Registry This money is simply thrown away on two officials to whom no work is brought |
5,442 | 5,442 | ... | ... | 6 | 6 |
| Revising Barristers, England | 18,690 | 27,700 | ... | 9,010 | ... | ... |
| Police Courts (London and Sheerness) | 15,565 | 15,320 | 245 | ... | 11,500 | 11,500 |
| ‡Metropolitan Police | 559,730 | 544,840 | 14,890 | ... | ... | ... |
| Special Police A result of the Dynamite Outrages |
36,000 | 38,000 | ... | 2,000 | ... | ... |
| Police, Counties and Boroughs (England and Wales) | 853,311 | 846,306 | 7,005 | ... | ... | ... |
| Convict Establishments in England and the Colonies | 346,644 | 381,374 | ... | 34,730 | 16,300 | 17,500 |
| Prisons, England About half a million of annual charge tor this and Scotch and Irish Prisons was in 1678 imposed on the taxpayer by the Beaconsfield Government, who thus lightened the burden of the Landed Gentry and added to tnose of the Income Tax payer |
466,035 | 471,930 | ... | 5,895 | 24,000 | 38,000 |
| Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Great Britain | 280,852 | 282,915 | ... | 2,063 | 22,000 | 23,750 |
| Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum | 29,282 | 29,417 | ... | 135 | 753 | 753 |
| Scotland. | ||||||
| Lord Advocate and Criminal Proceedings | 64,356 | 64,093 | 263 | ... | ... | ... |
| Courts of Law and Justice | 63,921 | 63,510 | 411 | ... | 23,500 | 24,000 |
| Register House Departments | 36,862 | 36,472 | 390 | ... | 100 | ... |
| Police, Counties and Burghs (Scotland) | 148,037 | 144,037 | 4,000 | ... | ... | ... |
| Prisons, Scotland See remarks under the English Prisons item |
108,876 | 113,201 | ... | 4,325 | 7,170 | 5,800 |
| Ireland. | ||||||
| Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions | 74,041 | 79,206 | ... | 6,165 | 600 | 123 |
| Supreme Court of Judicature | 88,861 | 91,222 | ... | 2,361 | 1,000 | 1,500 |
| Court of Bankruptcy | 10,059 | 10,000 | 59 | ... | 750 | 750 |
| Admiralty Court Registry | 1,285 | 1,285 | ... | ... | ... | ... |
| Registry of Deeds | 16,835- | 17,510 | ... | 675 | ... | ... |
| Registry of Judgments | 2,363 | 2,338 | 25 | ... | ... | ... |
| Land Commission | 54,613 | 78,677 | ... | 24,064 | 400 | 800 |
| County Court Officers, &c. | 96,687 | 99,316 | ... | 2,629 | 1,130 | 1,100 |
| Dublin Metropolitan Police (including Police Courts) | 150,632 | 145,817 | 4,815 | ... | 51,476 | 52,000 |
| Constabulary | 1,397,153 | 1,380,091 | 17,062 | ... | 62,475 | 85,350 |
| Prisons, Irelary See remarks under the English Prisons item |
155,886 | 158,491 | ... | 2,605 | 5,000 | 4,500 |
| Reformatory and Industrial Schools | 108,057 | 101,150 | 6,907 | ... | 1,150 | 1,150 |
| Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum | 6,755 | 6,847 | ... | 92 | 18 | 18 |
| £6,305,534 | 6,363,067 | 56,618 | 114,151 | 706,108 | 721,290 | |
| Net Decrease. | £57,533 | |||||