14S MINUTES OF EVIDENCE BEFORE SELECT COMMITTEE djl". STATEMENT of One Year's direct and indirect Local Taxes, levied and collected from the Householders A ° ENERAof the Cky of Dublin; furnished by the Committee appointed to investigate and report thereon oi cue ^ iiy Dublin, March 3, 1823. Whom assessed and received by. Paving Board City Corporation - D" Police Establish ment ish- j Wide Streets 1 Commissioners / Governors Found ling Hospital Rector - - - -} Churchwardens - Lord Mayor and\ Corporation - J * Ballast Board Commissioners Dunleary USES AND PURPOSES. Paving, lighting, and cleansing, & c. Tax Grand Jury Cess, Prisons, & c. * Pipe Water, and Metal Main Taxes • POLICE TAX : Fees and fines from divisional offices Figure fines, penalties 011 carriages, & c. licences to publicans, pawnbrokers, & c. Carriage tax, & c. - Watch and house tax £. s. d. 653 8 4 618 13 - 6,627 - - 4,672 17 8 8,637 19 8 WIDE STREET TAXES : Charges on coals imported House card tax - Club tax * Wide Street house tax - 12,595 672 256 6,249 Foundling Hospital Tax Ministers Money ... Parish Cess - Amount of the direct taxes - FEES * Fees on charges, wind, 6d. on shipping Fees or charges on coals and merchant vessels - Fees to guild of merchants Fees, & c. on markets ... D° - on bakers - D° - on showmen - Courts of civil jurisdiction Sheriffs fees on civil bill suits - Gaoler's fees - Secretary to the grand jury, fees Royal Exchange - Coin Exchange . For improving the port, walls, lights, & c. Harbour - Amount of indirect local taxes £ TOTAL Amount of the direct and indirect" 150 - - 1,846 - - 8,895 - - 6,408 - - 540 - - 200 - - 4,269 - - 22,308 - - 4,135 - - 2,211 - - 256 - - Local Taxes, per year AMOUNT. £. s. d. 45,965 - " ' 27,515 - - * 22,200 - - 21,209 18 8 19,772 - - 7,673 - - 8,000 - - 12,000 - - 164,334 18 8 ' 28,910 - - 388 - - 1,552 - - 35,665 - - 8,295 - - "!} £- 239,144 18 8 OBSERVATIONS. Taken from the Parliamen- tary returns, and Board's ac- counts, on an average of x 1 (. years. f Parliamentary return for |_ i82i. From Parliamentary re- turns, and the Corporation accounts, on an average of .13 years. ' These four charges are taken from the returns to the Com- missioners for auditing the . Public Accounts for 1820. The Watch Tax from the Parliamentary returns, on an average of 7 years. This \ establishment has also a government grant of ^£. 28,166. 13. 4. per year. From Parliamentary returns. D°, on an average of 7 years. - D° - d°. - D° - d°. - D° - - D° - d". d ® . By computation from the best data. By computation. [ An order from the House of Commons has been ob- tained for these three charges. f These sums are made up from the best practical sources of information. { From the Parliamentary returns. - D° - d". computation. f Part Parliamentary return, \ and part computation. D°, Parliamentary return. 74,810 - - tlJlumTf'^ g^^^^ nJm.^^^ ^ * ^ ^ ° fand mana& ed ambers * the corporation; making together t^ city vicinity of Dublin pay £. 181,039. 3. 8. per ' The Committee, in makSe Slcuktiln ff ^ Z' T a, fUnllar 1" antity of coal is used. from authentic documents, have. taken average of a number of years, them to make out a report £ nearly SSSCSi^ S* * ^^ " " * ^