PUBLIC EXPENDITURE.

An Account of the PUBLIC EXPENDITURE of the United

Kingdom, exclusive of the Sums applied to the Reduction of the National Debt, in the year ended 5th January, 1826.

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L'ayments out of the Exchequer.
Dividends, Interest, and Management of the Public Funded

Debt, four Quarters to 10th October 1825, exclusive of
5,486,4751. 73. 8d. issued to the Commissioners for the
Reduction of the National Debt

127,230,789 19 61 Interest on Exchequer Bills

829,498 25

28,060,288 1111 Issued to the Trustees of Military and Naval Pensions, &c. per Act 3 Geo. 4, c. 51 ....

2,214,260 0 Ditto • · Bank of England, per Act 4 Geo. 4, c. 22

585,7400 0

2,200,000 0 0 Civil List ... four Quarters to 5th January 1826.

2,057,000 0 0 Pensions charged by Act of Parliament on Consolidated Fund, four Quarters to 10th October 1825

366,028 8 21 Salaries and Allowances

87,641 5 03 Officers of Courts of Justice...................

98,612 0 4 Expenses of the Mint

1.1,7-18 15 10 Bonoties............................................ 2,950 13 8 Miscellaneous.......

261,815 18 Ditto Ireland.....................

301,084 29

2,189,917 3 10 Repayment of Loan from Royal Exchange Assurance Company on account of the New Street

100,000 0 For the purchase of Silver for the New Coinage in Ireland.... 500,000 0 0 For Building New Churches in the Islands of Scotland

50,000 0

650,000 0 0 Army ..........5...

7,579,631 4 4 Navy ...............

5,849,119 4 3 Ordnance

1,567,087 7 78 Miscellaneous

2,216,081 15

17,211,919 11 73 Money paid to the Bank of England, more than received from them on account of Unclaimed Dividends

49,464 11 6 By the Commissioners for issuing Eschequer Bills, per Act 3 Geo. 4, c. 86, for the employment of the Poor

125,150 0 0 Advances out of the Consolidated Fund in Ireland, for Public Works......

533,058 7 21

707,872 18 82 TOTAL

57,217,459 12 31 Eurplus of Income paid into the Exchequer, over Expenditure issued thercout

5,653,841 6 0

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162,871,300 18 45

Whitehall, Treasury Chambers,

ubers, 28th February 1896.

J. C. HIERRIES.

DISPOSITION OF GRANTS.

An Account showing how the MONIEs given for the SERVICE of

the United Kingdom of Great BRITAIN and IRELAND, for the Year 1825, have been disposed of; distinguished under their several Heads ; to 5th January 1826.

Of the Bahama Islands
Of the Island of Dominica...
Of Upper Canada
Of Nova Scotia
Of New Brunswick
Of Prince Edward Island
Of Sierra Leone.
Of Newfoundland
Of New South Wales.......
To defray the Charge of the Civil and Mili-

tary Establishments of the African Forts ... To defray the Charge of Civil Contingencies To defray the Charge of the Royal Military

College
To defray the Charge of the Military Asylum
To pay Interest on Exchequer Bills
To defray the Salaries and Allowances to the

Officers of the Houses of Lords and

Cominons
To defray the Expenses of the House of Lords

and Commons....
To make good the Deficiency of the Fee Fund

in the Departments of his Majesty's Trea-
sury, Homo Secretary of Slale, Foreign
Secretary of State, Secretary of State for
the Colonies, most honourable Privy Coun-
cil, and the Committee of Privy Council for

Trade
Contingent Expenses and Messengers Bills in

the Departments of his Majesty's Treasury,
Home Secretary of Slale, Foreign Secretary
of State, Secretary of State for the Colo-
nies, most honourable Privy Council, and
the Committeo of Privy Council for Trade

SERVICES.

SUMS
Voted or Granted.

SUMS
Paid.

Salaries to cerlain Officers, and Expenses of

the Court and Receipt of Exchequer......... Salaries or Allowances granted to certain Pro

fessors in the Universities of Oxford and

Cambridge, for reading Courses of Lectures Salaries of the Commissioners of the Insolvent

Debtors Court, of their Clerks, and the Contingent Expenses of their Office; and also the Expenses atlending upon the Cir.

cuits Salaries of the Officers and the Contingent

Expenses of the Office for the Superintendence of Aliens, and also the Superannuations or retired Allowances to Officers for

merly employed in that Service ...... Allowances to Protestant Dissenting Minis

ters in England, poor French Protestant Refugee Clergy, poor French Protestant Resugee Laity, and sundry small Charitable and other Allowances to the Poor of St

Martin's-in-the-Fields, and others............. Foreign and other Secret Services........ Expense of Printing Acts of Parliament, and

Bills, Reports, and other Papers, for the

two Houses of Parliament.... Expenses incurred for Printing, by order of

the Commissioners for carrying into execution the Measures recommended by the House of Commons respecting the Records

of the Kingdom Expense of Stationery, Printing, and Bind

ing, for the several Public Deparlnients of

Government
Extraordinary Expenses of the Mint in the

Gold Coinage...
To make good the Loss upon the Irish Silver

Tokens already recoined and to be re-coined
Extraordinary Expenses that may be incurred

for Prosecntions, &c. relating to the Coin

of this Kingdom........ Extraordinary Expenses in the Department of

the Lord Chamberlain of his Majesty's Household, for Fittings and Furniture, for

the two Houses of Parliament Expense of Law Charges Expense attending the confining, maintain

ing, and employing Convicts at home and

at Bermuda...... Bills drawn from abroad by his Majesty's

Governors and others, for Expenses incurred under the Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and in conformity with the Orders in Council for the Support, &c. of Captured Negroes, Free American Settlers, &c,

British Museum, from the 25th Dec. 1824, to

25th March 1826 To make Compensation to the Commissioners

appointed by several Acts for inquiring into the Collection and Management of the Revenue in Ireland, and the several Establishments connected therewith, and into certain other Revenue Departments in Great Britain, for their assiduity, care, and pains in the execution of the Trusts reposed

in them by Parliament Expense of the Penitentiary House at Milbank Claryo of the Allowances or Compensations

granted or allowed as Retired Allowances or Superannuations, to Persons employed in Public Offices or Departments, or in the Pablic Service, according to the provisions

of two Acts of his late and presenl Majesty To enable his Majesty tu grant relief to Tou.

lonese and Corsican Emigrants, Dutch Naval
Officers, St. Domingo Sufferers, and others
who have heretofore received Allowances
from his-Majesty, and who, from Services
performed or Losses sustained in the Bri-
tish Service, lave special Claims upon

his
Majesty's justice and liberality
National Vaccine Establishinent
Institution called “The Refuge for llie Des-

tilute".
For the Relief of the American Loyalists.
Expense of confining and maintaining Crimi--

nal Lunatics Salaries and Incidental Expouses of the Com

inissioners appointed on the part of his Majesty, under the Treaties with Spain, Portugal, and the Netherlands, for preventing the illegal Traffic in Slaves, and in pursuance of the Acts for carrying the said Treaties into effect.....

SERVICES.

SUMS
Voted or Granted.

SUMS
Paid.

Expenses of the Special Commissioners to

Spanish America......
Salaries of his Majesty's Consuls General,

Consuls and Vice-consuls in Spanish

America
Charges of the Society for the Propagation of

the Gospel, in the Colonies of Upper ane.
Lower Canada, Nova Scotia, New Bruns-
wick, Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island,

and tho Cape of Good Hope Expense of the Works at the College of Edin

burgh
Expense of the Works al Port Patrick

Harbour..
Expense of Works at Donaghadee Harbour...
Expense of Buildings at the British Museum
For rebuilding the Office of his Majesty's

Privy Council, and for completing the Office

of Committee of Privy Council for Trade... Charge and Repairs of Works to be executed

at Windsor Castle To make Compensation in the year 1825, to

the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty, for inquiring into the Nature and Extent of the Instruction afforded hy the several Institutions in Ireland, established for the purpose of Education, for their assiduity, care, and pains in the execution of

the trust reposed in them Expenses of the Roads and Harbours of Holy

head and Howth........
For facilitating Emigration from the South of

Ireland to the Canadas
For the Purchase of Mr. Rich's Collection of

Manuscripts, Antiquities and Coins, to be
placed in the British Museum, for the

Benefit of the Public
To enable his Majesty to remunerate John

Loudon M'Adam, for the Service which he
has rendered by the Introduction of a
valuable Improvement in the Method of
Constructing the Public Roads of this

Country
To defray that part of the Expense of the Re-

pairs to thre Cobb, at Lyme Regis, rendered
necessary in consequence of the destructive
Effects of the Slorms in the Autumn of
1824, which it is proposed should be borne

by the Public ....... To indemnify certain Proprietors of Slaves in

the United States of America, under the Treaty concluded at Ghent, on the 24th day of December 1814, and the Convention signed at St. Petersburgh on the 12th day of Joly 1829