BO THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM
V. Foreign and Colonial Services : £
Diplomatic and Consular 491,600
Colonial, inch S, Africa 353,681
Cyprus, Uganda, &c. . 300,463 Other services . . 76,212
Total . . 1,221,956
VI. Non-Effective and Charitable Services . 711,539
VII. Miscellaneous. . 44,716
IV. Education f Science and
Art:
U. K. and England :—
£
Public Education
8,520,175
Science and Art Dept.
. 600,781
British Museum
. 162,280
National Galleries .
. 28,226
Colleges, &c., Grt. Brit,
and Int. Ed, Wales
, 104,522
Scientific Investigation
. 28,452
Scotland : —
Public Education
, 1,281,867
National Galleiy
4,400
Ireland : —
Public Education ,
1,226,734
National Gallery
2,504
Queen's Colleges, &c.
5,855
Total .
11,965,796
Grand Total 1898-99 . 21,792,646^ Grand Total 1897-98 . 21,091,681 Net increase 1898-99 . 700,965
1 But unappropriated receipts are estimated at 1,290,931Z., reducing the net expenditure for 1898-99 to 20,501,7151,
In addition to the ordinary expenditure above given, there were issues to meet expenditure under the Barracks Act, 1890, 300, OOOZ. ; Telegraph Acts, 1892 and 1896, 160,000^.; Uganda Railway Act, 1896, 595, 000^.; Public Offices Site Acts, 1895 and 1897, 350,000Z. Under the Naval Works Act, there were issues amounting to 596,000/. out of the sui'plus of 1895-96, by Act retained in the Exchequer, and made applicable to naval works ; and, under the Mili- tary Works Act, 1897, there were issues out of the surplus revenue of 1896-97, to the amount of 750,000Z. Besides these items, there were a few minor re» ceipts into and issues from the Exchequer account ; which is also swollen by cross entries in respect of sums borrowed and paid otf during the year. The balance in the Exchequer on April 1,1897, was 9,867, 134Z,; the gi'oss receipts into the Exchequer in the year 1897-98 amounted to 116,551,282Z. ; the gross issues out of the Exchequer in the year 1897-98 amounted to 115,499,994/., leaving a balance on March 31, 1898, of 10,918,422/.
II. Taxation.
The revenue derived from the most important of direct taxes, that upon incomes, was as follows in the last ten years : —
Year ending
Tax
Annual Ex-
Year ending
Tax
Annual Ex-
March 31
per £
chequer Receipt
March 31
per £
chequer Receipt
1889
U.
£ 12,700,000
1894
7rf.
£ 15,200,000
1890
U.
12,770,000
1895
8d.
15,600,000
1891
U.
13,250,000
1896
8d.
16,100,000
1892
Qd.
13,810,000
1897
8d.
16,650,000
1893
dd.
13,470,000 «
1898
8d.
17,250,000
