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IRISH PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 1798-9, (shortly before the Act of Union), six printed broadsheets containing the following accounts:
No. I. An Abstract of the Duties collected under the Commissioners...
IRISH PUBLIC ACCOUNTS 1798-9, (shortly before the Act of Union), six printed broadsheets containing the following accounts:
No. I. An Abstract of the Duties collected under the Commissioners of Customs and Excise; (exclusive of the Appropriated Duties); also an Account of the Stamp Duties and Post Office Revenue, For One Year, with the Expense of Management, Drawbacks, Premiums, etc. From Lady-day [25th March] 1798 to Lady-day 1799. - Stephen Moore, Accountant General.
No. II. An Abstract of the Several Appropriated Duties, For One Year, From Lady-day 1798 to Lady-day 1799.
No. III. A State of the Establishments and other Charges of Government, For One Year, The Civil List ending the 25th and the Military the 31st of March 1799; Together with The Payments made by the Treasury, the Arrears remaining unsatisfied, and the Remains.
No. IV. A State of the Duties and Aids applicable to the Loans, and the Charges thereon, For One Year, From Lady-day 1798 to Lady-day 1799; Together with A General State of the Loan Funds, and also Of the Surplus thereof at Lady-day 1799.
No. V. A General State of the National Account, For One Year, From Lady-day 1798 to Lady-day 1799; with A State, distinguishing the Funded from the Unfunded Debt.
No. VI. A General State of the Several Appropriated Duties, (exclusive of the Loan which appears in No. IV.) For One Year, From Lady-day 1798 to Lady-day 1799.Together with A General State of the Loan Funds, and also Of the Surplus thereof at Lady-day 1799.
"By virtue of an Order of the House of Commons I do license and appoint Abraham Bradley King to print the Public Accounts laid before the Housed this Session of Parliament, and that no other Person do presume to print the same" - John Foster, Speaker. Dublin: Printed by Abraham Bradley King, (Stationer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty) Printed to the Honourable the House of Commons of Ireland, 1800. Single Broadsheets, each [475 x 580mm], folded. In very good condition.
John Foster, 1st Baron Oriel (1740-1828) Irish peer and politician, Chancellor of the Exchequer of Ireland and the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. He was the son of Anthony Foster of Dunleer, Louth, Chief Baron of the Irish Exchequer (and son of John Foster, MP for Dunleer) by his first wife Elizabeth Burgh. Foster lived in Merville, now part of the University College Dublin Campus in Clonskeagh, which came into his ownership in 1778. He also inherited Collon House in County Louth from his father, and made extensive improvements to the house and grounds; Collon was famous for its variety of trees and shrubs.
He was elected Member of Parliament to the Irish House of Commons for Dunleer in 1761, a seat he held until 1769. He made his mark in financial and commercial questions, being appointed Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1784. His law giving bounties on the exportation of corn and imposing heavy taxes on its importation is noted by William Lecky as being largely responsible for making Ireland an arable instead of a pasture country. In 1785 he became the last Speaker of the Irish House of Commons.
In 1768, Foster was elected for Navan and in 1783 for Sligo Borough, and also for Louth, which constituency he chose to represent. He held this seat until the Act of Union in 1801, which he opposed. He refused to surrender the Speaker's mace, which was kept by his family. Foster was returned to the united parliament as a member for County Louth, and in 1804 became Irish Chancellor of the Exchequer under Pitt. In 1821 he was created a peer of the United Kingdom as Baron Oriel, of Ferrard, in the County of Louth, and died on 23 August 1828. In 1764 he married Margareta Amelia Burgh, daughter of Thomas Burgh, MP for Lanesborough, and had two sons and a daughter.
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