Amount of Government Grants in Aid.

(As per Civil Service Estimates.)

These of course are transfers of burdens from the owners and occupiers of Real Property in the United Kingdom to the general Taxpayers, who are mostly of the middle and working classes.

					Net (i.e.: after deducting Miscellaneous receipts and adjusting figures for Statistical Departm't).
Year.	England and Wales.	Scotland.	Ireland.	U. K.
1880-7	£3,507,361	£540,138	£2,078,254	£6,125,753
1885-6	3,500,354	536,775	2,069,791	6,106,290	£5,802,000
1884-5	3,377,282	520,228	2,103,473	6,000,983	5,593,967
1883-4	3,320,915	494,369	2,082,118	5,897,402	5,640,231
1882-3	3,036,126	465,955	1,974,086	5,476,167	5,763,537
1881-2	2,972,451	465,726	1,832,422	5,270,599	5,096,336
1880-1	£2,921,241	£440,814	£1,758,689	£5,120,744	£4,914,889
1879-80					4,972,571
1878-9					4,769,329
1877-8					4,203,661
1870-7					4,109,714
1875-6					4,026,065

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