An Account of FUNDS and INCOME of the Foundling Hospital in Dublin, from the 25th December 1797, to the 5th January 1807 :-Distinguished under the following Periods of Accounts.

Note. In the Account ending 24th June 1799, is included the Grant to pay the Debts of the preceding Corporation.

The permanent funds of the Foundling Hospital arise from the tax on houses, rent of estate, which produces annually £115. 2s., and from parliamentary grants.

The PERMANENT FUNDS of the Foundling Hospital arise from the Tax on Houses, which is now about £8,000. yearly, from the Rent of the Estate, which produces annually £115. 2s. and from Parliamentary Grants, which have been as follows:

An Account of the EXPENDITURE of the Foundling Hospital, in Dublin, from the 25th December 1797, to the 5th January 1807 :-Distinguished under the the following Periods of Account.

Note. In the Account ending 24th June 1799, is included the sum of £5,345. 3s. 84d. the amount of the debts of the preceding Corporation, paid within the period of that account.

The Expenditure of the Foundling Hospital has varied during the several Periods, for the following reasons; viz.

The Number of Children in the House.

The Variation in the Price of Provisions.

The Expenditure on Buildings.

And the Increase in the Annual Payments of Nurses' Wages, which, since the year ending the 5th January 1804, have increased progressively from £9,000. to £14,500.

An Account of all TAXES collected for the Foundling Hospital in Dublin, from the 25th December 1797, to the 5th January 1807; and of the Expense for Poundage to Collectors, and Constable Money attending the same :-Distinguished under the following Periods of Account.

The Act for the better regulating the Foundling Hospital and Workhouse, at Dublin, passed the 11th and 12th years Geo. III. c. 11, repealed all former Acts.

From section 49 to 54 recites the tax on houses; viz. from 24th June 1772.

Sixpence in the pound on all houses within the several parishes in Dublin, and within the distance of two miles of the Castle of Dublin, according to the valuation for ministers' money; and also sixpence in the pound of said valuation, on all houses wherein malt or spirituous liquors shall be sold by retail.

The Act of 25th Geo. III. c. 50, grants a further tax from the 24th June 1785, namely;

A further sum of sixpence in the pound upon all and every the houses in Dublin, or within two miles of the Castle of Dublin, according as they are or shall be valued, for ministers', watch, or lamp money, except houses, whereof the yearly value shall be under five pounds, making in the whole a tax of one shilling in the pound, according to said valuations, upon all houses of the value of five pounds and upwards, and of sixpence in the pound upon all houses under five pounds value:

Together with the aforesaid tax of sixpence in the pound upon all houses wherein malt or spirituous liquors are sold by retail, and which taxes are recognised, and further regulations made, as to the assessments and collection, without increasing their rates, by the act of 40 Geo. III. c. 33, sections 8 to 15.

The total amount of these rates is estimated to produce annually the gross sum of eight thousand pounds, and is chargeable from the 24th June in each year; but as the accounts of the Foundling Hospital are made up annually, to the 15th January in each year, for the Commissioner of Imprest Account, the amounts of the tax in these accounts have fluctuated according as the collection has been more or less, between the two half years from January to June, or from June to January, in each year, although the annual produce for each year, from 24th June to 24th June, has been nearly alike.

An Account of all the ARREARS of TAXES payable to the Foundling Hospital, in Dublin, at the conclusion of the annual period for regulating the same, for the 24th June 1807.

The 24th June in each year is the annual period at which the taxes for the Foundling Hospital
become payable.

On the 24th June 1807, the arrears then remaining outstanding, from the
24th June 1805 and 1806, and carried into collection from that period,
amounted to the sum of

£.1,400 2 3

£.1,253 2 1

The ACCOUNTS of the Foundling Hospital, not being in the possession of the Accomptants, for the year ending the 25th December 1797, sufficient for the purpose desired by the Board of Education, they have selected the following Abstract from the Report of the Commissioners of Imprest Account for that year, relating thereto.

State of the FUNDS and DEBTS of the Foundling Hospital, on the
5th January 1808.

Amount of debts remaining unpaid on the 5th January 1808; viz.

For provisions

£.

S. d.

State of the FUNDS and DEBTS of the Foundling Hospital, 5th January 1809.

Amount of Debts remaining unpaid on the 5th January 1809; viz.

For provisions

Clothing

Manufactures and woollen factory

Repairs and alterations of buildings
Miscellaneous and house expenses

Estimate of wages calculated as due to country nurses, from the last general pay made for 24th June 1808

Total

on the

Correct copies of the original accounts, furnished to the Board of Education by the Acting Treasurer of the Foundling Hospital in Dublin.

J. CORNEILLE,

Secretary to the Board of Education.

SIR-We send the accounts of the Foundling Hospital you desire, but although they are made up in this manner to the 5th January in each year for the Commissioners of Imprest, yet you will please to recollect that the annual general pay for the country nurses is made up to the 24th June in each year; therefore, the balance estimated to be due to them on the 5th January, is only introduced in this manner, to comply with the desire of the Imprest Board; although such amount will be part of the yearly wages paid to the nurses, for and after the 24th June following.

And that the house tax is chargeable from 24th June in each year, and likewise introduced in this manner to square the accounts for the Imprest Board, in order to shew what would be the state of the institution, supposing all matters to terminate on the 5th January.

But you will perceive it will nearly prove the true state of the question, and shew how much the expense has exceeded the income; if you will compare the amount of the debts as we have stated them, (excluding the nurses' wages) with the balance of cash then remaining, and the difference will prove the deficiency. We are, Sir, your most obedient Servants,

Jervis Street, 24th July, 1809.
J. Corneille, Esq. Sec.

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JOHN AND JAMES HENDRICK.