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Part I.— An ACCOUNT of the PUBLIC INCOME and EXPENDITURE of the UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND In the Year ended the 31st day of March, 1878; prepared in compliance with Sec. 4 of the Act 38 and 39 Vict., c. 45.

APPENDIX A. Specimen of the Fobh in which the English Account of Reyenue and Expenditttee is Published Quaeteely.

Yeae ended 31st Maech, 1878.

EXPENDITUBE. Pebmanent Chaege op Debt. Interest and management of the permanent debt... Terminable annuities... Interest of Exchequer bills Interest of Bank advances for deficiency Interest of Bank advances for ways and means ... New sinking fund £ s. d. 21,583,443 11 9 5,547,517 18 4 93,377 7 10 10,178 1 3 657 10 9 764,825 10 1 £ e. d. Intebest on tempoeaby loans foe local ptteposes ... Inteeest, etc., on Exchequer bonds (Suez) 28,000,000 0 0 212,827 0 2 199,923 5 0 Othee Chabges on Consolidated Fttnd. Civil List ... Annuities and pensions Salaries and allowances Courts of justice ... ... Miscellaneous charges 406,754 17 9 308,888 5 3 95,124 10 4 641,545 14 1 189,272 1 2 1,641,585 8 7 Supply Seevices. Army Army charges on account of troops in India Army Purchase Commission ... Wavy Vote of credit: Busso-Turkish War Miscellaneous civil services Customs and Ialand Revenue Departments Post Office ... Telegraph Service, including Telegraph disallowances Packet service ... ... ... 14,607,444 14 2 1,000,000 0 0 504,719 9 7 10,978,591 11 5 3,500,000 0 0 13,982,553 9 8 2,688,267 9 6 3,185,346 5 6 1,139,237 0 0 .763,000 0 0 52,349,159 19 ll Total Expendituee £82,403,495 13 !

Income. £ a. d. £ s. d. 19,969,000 0 0 27,464,000 0 0 10,956,000 0 0 2,670,000 0 0 5,820,000 0 0 6,150,000 0 0 1,310,000 0 0 410,000 0 0 Customs Excise Stamps Land-tax and House Duty ... Property- and Income-tax ... Post Office Telegbaph Seevicb Crown Lands (Net) Miscellaneous — ■ Military and naval extra receipts, and proceeds of old stores sold Amount received from the revenues of India on account of the effective and non-effective charges of British troops serving in that country Interest on public loans ... Interest on the purchase-money of the Suez Canal shares "... Allowance out of the profits of issue received from the Bank of England, per Act 24 Viet., c. 3 ... Net profit on Post Office Savings Banks Other miscellaneous receipts ... 776,427 17 6 1,248,841 1 2 751,054 6 10 198,829 2 0 I 138,578 0 0 126,279 14 11 1,774,288 10 1 5,014,298 12 6 Total Income Excess of total expenditure over income in the year ended 31st March, 1878 ... 79,763,298 12 6 2,640,197 1 1 £82,403,495 13 7