390 ANNUAL REGISTER, 1S18. 



The House will observe, that in stating the probable expenditure 

 of the current year, at 68,089,48U., your Committee have not ad- 

 verted to the sum of 1,100,000/. appropriated in this session towards 

 the building of new churches. Although this sum, from its having 

 been granted as a credit to the commissioners, who may be ap- 

 pointed by the Crown for the execution of this important object, 

 forms properly no part of the immediate supply of the year, it is 

 however obvious, that the application of this credit will add, in what- 

 ever proportion it may be used in this and the succeeding year, to 

 the actual expenditure of those years respectively. 



Upon the foregoing statements, your Committee have first to 

 remark, that the actual disbursements within the year 1817, have 

 agreed very nearly with their estimate, although there are some 

 material differences in the several heads of expenditure, which they 

 comprise. These are chiefly in the expenditure of the Army, and 

 of the Navy, and in the special charges not adverted to in the esti- 

 mate of your Committee, and which did not form part of the ordinary 

 supply of the year ; the expenditure, under the first of those heads, 

 was 213,873/. more, and under the second 773,000/. less than in the 

 estimate ; the extraordinary charges constitute an addition of ex- 

 pense to the amount of 695,848/. O*. 10|rf. The first of these dif- 

 ferences appears to have arisen from the charge of the disembodied 

 militia, not included in the estimate of your Committee, for a reason 

 which will be adverted to hereafter ; and the second, from the cir- 

 cumstance of the navy debt not having yet been reduced by the 

 whole sum included in the votes of the last year for that purpose. 

 The difference created by extraordinary charges, not estimated for, 

 is explained by the note at the foot of the account. 



Sinking Fund aiid Interest of Debt The SUm applied tO the TB- 



'^h'LT'iR'^r'"^"'""''^''' .^f-\~a, demption of debt in 1817, and 



otn .)an 1B18 14,loy,763 „ ' „ , , 



Sinking Fnnd of Unfunded Debt.. 358,526 lomimg part oi the total payments 



f.^ryS^Sd:::::::::::: iS ^^ove stated, of 68,906,245/., was 



Ordnance Debt reduced 221,747 15,139,330/., as particularized in the 



Consolidated Fund in Irelaud.niade ■ i • _ j".. c 



good to the 5th January iai7.. 235,848 TOargui ; Icavmgan expenditure ot 

 „ ■ — 52,956,905/. ; which bein? contrasted 



£.15,139,339 .', J ' , . ° , 



Z with the actual income, as above 



Ex-penditure after deducting Debt £• stated, amounting to 51,665,460/., 



Paidoff 52,95fi,906 , ■l.i xu ij-^- c^\! J 



Total Receipts 5'2,302,2io and With the addition ot the produce 



^ gj^ g g of the old stores and the lottery, to 

 — — '— 52,302,210/., there will appear to 

 have been a difference between the expenditure and the receipts with- 

 in the year, of 654,696/. 



But it is to bt observed, that in addition to the above sum of 

 15,139,339/., being the debt redeemed and discharged in the year 

 1817, out of the receipts within that year, there has been a farther 

 reduction of debt to a considerable amount, by the application of 

 sums issued from the Exchequer in the preceding year, and remain- 

 ing in the hands of the commissioners for the redemption of the 



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