88] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1817. 



the present year. The next item 

 he had to state to the committee 

 was that arising from the sale of 

 old naval stores, the amount of 

 which he estimated for the last 

 year at 400,000/. There was one 

 item more he had to include in 

 the ways and means for the year. 

 It was the arrears of the propeity 

 tax, of which a considerable sum 

 was due on the 5th of April last. 

 The whole arrear estimated likely 

 to be received in the year ending 



on the 5th of April 1818, was 

 l,.500,000i. These several items 

 of ways and means amounted al- 

 together to 9,.'541,.'j37/. 5 so that 

 there was required to make gocd 

 tlie supply 12,600,000/. This he 

 proposed to raised by Irish trea- 

 sury bills to the amount of 

 y,(J00,000/., and a new issue of 

 900,000/. of exchequer bills. Hav- 

 ing concluded these statements, 

 he would now recaj)itulate the dif- 

 ferent items of the 



WAYS AND MEANS. 



£3,000,000— Annual Duties £3,000,000 



Disposable 1815 15,749 



Ways and Means 1816 1,849,810 



1,865,559 



5j500,000 Excise Duties continued 



(after satisfying the grant thereon for 



the year 1816) 1,300,000 



Money remaining at the disposal of 

 parliament of the consolidated fund 



at April 5, 1817 l,'i'Z5,97fi 



250 000— Lottery 250,000 



Old stores 400,000 



Arrears of property tax received or to 

 be received between the 5th of Ajjril, 

 1817, and 5th of April 1818 1,-500,000 



9,541,537 



Irish treasury bills S,eoo,000 



Exchequer bills 9,0f)0,000 



1 2,600,000 



22,141,537 



The first total of the wa3's and 

 means which he had stated, name- 

 ly, the 9,541,537/. might be re- 

 garded as the ready money ac- 

 tually in the exchequer, or which 

 would be received in the course 

 of the j'ear ; but that was the 

 whole which the ordinary re- 

 sources offered for coverin^^ the 



expenditure. It was therefore 

 clear, that the above balance of 

 12,600,000/. was necessary to 

 e{]\ialize the ways and means and 

 the supply ; and he was convinced 

 that that simi could not be raised 

 in a way more advantageous to 

 the coimtiy than that which he 

 Ijad proposed, He should, in the 



first 



