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Statistici. 
WAYS AND MEANS, 181 L 
Annual Duties - - . 
Surplus Consolidated Fund, 1810 
Ditto » 1811 
War Taxes . - » 
Lottery w ^ . 
Exchequer Bills 
Vote of Credit _ . „ 
Loan 5 ^ Cent. Stock 
2 in 3 and 4 per Cents. 
Naval Stores » 
4,98 1,300 > 
7,500,000 5 
/ 3,000,000 
1,353,715 
5.000. 000 
20,000,00d 
300,000 
4.000. 000 
3.000. 000 
12,481,300 
420,364 
49,555,379 
It thus appeared that the total of ways and means exceeded 
the total of the supply in the sum of 102,510^. The comiliittee 
would however, expect that he would enter into an explanation of 
the grounds on which he calculated the surplus of the consolidated 
fund of the present year, at the sum of 5,000,000/. To do this, it 
Would be necessary for him to detail the produce at which he esti- 
mated the vavious articles that went to the constitution of that fund. 
He took the customs at 5,131,000/.; being the average of the 
produce of the two last years. lie had taken a similar average 
last year, being then 4,485,333/., but in fact tiie customs had pro- 
duced 4,987,391/.; being about 500,000/. beyond the calculation. 
So with the excise, he proposed to take it on the average of the 
produce of the two last years, or 17,167,000/. Of this article lie 
had also taken a similar average last year, being then 16,880,625/. ; 
but the excise had produced 1 7,399,3 1 2/. T his mode of calculation 
afforded him a fair scheme of estimate; for although the customs 
for 1811 fell short by about 200,000/. of the customs of 1810, yet 
the excise for 1810 was surpassed by that of 181 1 to a similar a- 
mount, the excess of the one balancing the deficiency of the other. 
The produce of the assessed taxes he had last year estimated at 
5,860, OOOh ; they had actually produced 5,781,831/. and he would 
take them for the present year at 5,800,000/, The stamp duties he 
had last year estimated at 5,193,000/. ; they had actually produced 
5,302,743/. The great increase in these duties during the last 
year completely justified him in the statement which he had at that 
period made, that the whole charge of the year might be defrayed 
out of their excess. To this statement, however, he had added the 
observation thru it was not probable the same excess would exist 
