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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1782 Excerpt: ... J Half-year's dividend-j per Cent. 1 on 3J per Cent. Annuities, i-11,250-o o 1758, from 5 July, 1782. ), 3,181,851 15 Io o Taken, for the round sum of Surplus Grants, 1781--254,475 7 c Deduct interest on Exchequer 7 Bills, &c.--s,44'331,8 Paid Bank of England prompt payment to proprietors of Loan, (. 1781---J--3,100,000 o SUPPLY----22,900,119 2 4 WAYS And MEANS 22,982,608 6 o EXCESS or PROVISIONS 82,489 3 8 The following is sjrid to be a.Mst of those gentlemen who have subscribed for the whole loan, which may be depended upon: Anclher State of our Finances. By the Earl of, Stair.. The Interest of the Debt besore the War, amounts yearly to .,22000 The Civil List Establishment, &c. is. estimated to amount yearly to--------1--1,200,000 The Funded Debt of the present War, amounts yearly to--. 2,500,000 Peace Establishment, will amount yearly to--t--4,300,000 Debts contracted in 1781, waiting for Funds r Navy Debt, on the 31st December, 1781, 11,000,000 Exchequer Bills------3,400,000 Debt to the Bank------2,000,000 12,220,000 Unsunded Debt, remaining in 1781, -- 16,400,000 Debt that must be contracted for 1782: The Loan------17,000,000 Extraordinaries of Sea and Land, for 1782 10,000,000 Winding up, and Arrears of the Wa--9,000,090 Total Unsunded Debt for 1781, and what Funded, or Unsunded, must be incurred for 1782, exclusive of any Arrears the Civil List may have sallen into-- 52,400,000 Of which Fifty-two Millions Four Hundred Thousand Pounds, only Fifty Millions (to keep within bounds) are charged to the public, at an interest of 5 1-half per cent, with the expence at the Bank included, making yearly----1------On a supposition of a peace being concluded in 1782, the annual charge, on the public, exclufive of collection an...
