of each quarter, certain sums of this - description useless, till the expiration of a subsequent quarter. The capital stock bought by the commissioners for discharging the national debt, up to the 1st day of February, 1791, (being the day on which they made up their accounts of the application of the sums issued in the preceding year) was is 6,772,350l. The annual interest of the same 203,1701. To this must be be added, the present amount of the annuities expired or fallen in, which appears to be 51,6341. Both together make a sum of 254,8041. which is at this time an addition to the million annually applied to the reduction of the national debt, resulting from the adoption of the plan for that purpose, and now increasing at compound interest. ABSTRACT of the several Articles of the PUBLIC RECEIPT and EXPENDITURE. Permanent taxes ............ £. 13,472,286 RECEIPT. * Land and malt EXPENDITURE. Interest and charges of the public debt £. 9,317,972 2,558,000 £. 16,030,286 Exchequer bills 260,000 Civil list 898,000 Charges on consolidated fund 105,385 *Calculated upon the average produce of the three last years, and exclusive of any additional allowance for the taxes imposed in 1789, or for the increase upon tobacco. An ACCOUNT of the AMOUNT of UNCLAIMED DIVIDENDS, and other Sums of Public Money remaining unpaid in the BANK of ENGLAND, from the Year 1736 to the Year 1789. Prepared pursuant to an Order of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS. On the declared Accounts of the Chief Cashiers of the Bank. Bal. remaining. £. S. d. NOTE.The aforegoing balances arise not only from the sums that have not been received by persons entitled to dividends on the several annuities transferable at the Bank but also from prizes in lotteries, unclaimed at the several periods to which the accounts were respectively declared. JOHN WIGGLESWORTH, Office for Auditing the Public Accounts, 15th December, 1790. ARREARS of DIVIDENDS and LOTTERY CERTIFICATES, paid at the BANK of ENGLAND since 1759; together with the Balance remaining in Hand at the Termination of each Account. Prepared pursuant to an Order of the Honourable HOUSE of COMMONS. |