72] ANNUAL REGISTER, 1816. 



To meet these charges, he should propose the following 



WAYS AND MEANS. 



Land and Malt £.3,000,000 



Surplus, ConsoUdated Fund 3,000,000 



Excise Duties continued for Five 



Years 3,500,000 



Bank Advance on Bills . , 6,000,000 



Lottery 200,000 



Siuplus Grants, 1815 5,663,755 



Bank Advance on Account of in- 

 creased Capital 3,000,000 



Unclaimed Dividends 301,316 



Unapplied Money in the Exchequer . 140,000 



Exchequer Bills 2,500,000 



£.27,305,771 



As, however, a considerable por- present situation of the country, 



tion of the supplies for the ser- the taxes carried to it were likely 



vice of the year yet remained to to increase or diminish, it was for 



be voted, he proposed to leave a gentlemen to determine for them- 



proportion of the ways and means, selves. By the latest accounts 



to the amoimt of 4,000,0001. to made out of the produce of the 



be also voted on a future day. customs up to the 5th of April 



He could wish to show how the last, that part of them which 



surplus of the consolidated fund was carried to the consolidated 



(which however he meant to re- fimd, amounted to very nearly 



serve for future consideraticxn) 5,000,0001. their , produce being 



was made up. Whether in the 4,998,0001. 



The produce of that part of the Cus- 

 toms given to the '»\'ar Taxes, 

 which by a late Act of Parliament 

 were to become permanent, amount- 

 ed to in the last year .^'.3,008,000 



The Excise gave within the same 



period 19,006,000 



Tlie Assessed Taxes 6,327,000 



Stamps 6,107,000 



Post Ofiice 1,600,000 



Land Tax 1,052,000 



Small branches of Revenue 122,000 



And sundry other Ways and Means, 

 including a variety of items, 

 brought the grand total of the In- 

 come of the Consolidated Fund, to 42,965,000 



The 



