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 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