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Branches of Expenditure

Year ending March 31, 1898

Budget Esti- mate 1898-99

£

£

£

Salaries, &c. Courts of Justice Miscellaneous Coinage (Acts of 1891 and 1893),. ..

Total Consolidated Fund Services.

iii. Army ....

79,560 512,483 344,553

250,000

1,885,994

2,010,000

19,329,000

26,885,994

27,010,000

Ordnance Factories. iv. Na^'y ....

100

19.330,000 20,850,000

19,221,000

23,778,000

—

V. Civil Services.

—

21,560,000

21,793,000

vi. Customs and Inland Revenue

—

2,745,000

2,836,000

vii. Post Office

—

7,592,000

8,002,000

viii. Telegraph Service

3,226,000

3,365,000

ix. Packet Service ,

Total Supply Services. Total Expenditure Sui-plus Income.

747,000

824,000

76,050,000

79,819,000

102,935,994

106,829,000

3,678,010

281,000

The exchequer issues for 1897-98 shown above are those with which the various depart- ments were supplied to meet all requirements, whether original or supplementary ; the estimates for 1898-99, shown in the table and in the details given below, are the original (exclusive of supplementary) estimates.

Further Details of the Budget, Army. — The net cost of the British army, according to the original estimates for 1898-99, is 19,220,500Z. Including appropriations in aid, amounting to 3,139,099/., the gross estimate was 22,359,599/. The following table shows the net estimates for 1898-99, as compared with those for 1897-98 : —

Army Estimates.

I. Effective Services : —

Regular forces and army reserve :

General staff and regimental pay, &c.

Chaplains' department.

Staff of military prisons, &c.

Army reserve .... Medical Establishments

1897-98

£

5,144,000

60,800

30,000

713,000

295,800

1898-99

£

5,385,150

61,750

30,500

789,000

295,800