THE CHRON? CL. E: 
which alone, at prefent, your com- 
mittee have been enabled to form 
any adequate judgment) appears 
fufficient to defray the charges of 
fuch part of the public debt as has 
been funded during the fame pe- 
riod. For this purpofe they have 
looked to the year moft diftant 
from their commencement, as af- 
fording, for the reafonsabove given, 
the beft means to judge of their 
productivenefs. 
in 1793, they find that the annual 
charge upon the public, on ac- 
count of the intereft, manage- 
ment, and ll. per cent. upon 
the debt funded in 1793, was 
L. 252,812 
The produce of the duties anfwer- 
able for this charge was, in the 
year 1796, only - JL. 166,813 
- But your Committee think it their 
duty to obferve, that this produce 
amuft have been materially affected 
by the ftoppage of the diftilleries, 
which prevailed from June 1795 to 
November 1796. 
In 1794, the annual charge upon 
the public, on account of the 
intereft, management, and ll. 
per cent. on the debt funded in 
1794, appears to be L. 773,824 
‘The produce of the duties con- 
tinued and impofed in that year 
appears to have been, in the year 
1796 7 L. 818,868 
in 1795, the annual charge upon 
the public, on account of the 
intereft, management, and 1]. 
per cent. upon the debt funded 
in-1795, was-- - _L. 1,227,415 
The produce of the duties anfwer- 
able for this charge was, in the 
year 1796 - L.1,332,794 
In 1796, the charge upon the pub- 
lic, for the intereft, management, 
and 1]. per cent. upon the debt 
cyeated, was. - JL, 1,851,226 
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The aétual receipt at the Exche- 
quer of the duties impofed in 
that year was, onthe 5th of 
January, 1797 - ‘ZL. 604,644 
Your Committee, for many of 
the reafons above affigned, do not 
think it poffible for them at prefent 
to form, upon fimilar grounds, an 
eftimate of a whole year’s produce 
of the duties impofed in 1796; 
neither do they think it advifeable 
to delay this their firft report, by 
entering inte any detailed exami- 
nation of the particulars; they feel 
it, however, their duty to obferve, 
that no adequate judgment can be 
formed of the future produce of 
thefe taxes from the actual receipt 
at the Exchequer at the abovemen- 
tioned period. 
IIL. — Unfunded Debt and.Demands 
outfanding. 
Your Committee have next pro- 
ceeded to examine and ftate the 
amount of the unfunded debt and 
demands out{tanding on the 5th of 
January, 1797, under the heads of 
Exchequer, Treafury, Army, Bar- 
racks, Ordnance, and Navy, as 
ftated by the refpective offices in 
the feveral accounts annexed, re- 
ferving to themfelves the liberty of 
ftating in any future report any 
further information or obfervations 
thereupon, which a more detailed 
inveftigation may enable them to 
lay before the Houfe. They have 
diftinguifhed under cach head —1f, 
What part of the unfunded debt 
has been provided for; 2d, What 
part, although provided for by the 
grants of former years, had not becn 
paid on the 5th of January, 1797, 
by reafon of the confolidated fund 
not having produced the furplus at 
which it was eftimated; and, 3diy, 
What 
