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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

In addition to the ordinary expenditure above given, there were issues to meet expenditure under the Telegraph Acts, 1892 to 1907, 1,150,000/.; Telephone Transfer Acts, 1911, 3,000,000Z. ; Military Works Acts, 1897 to 1903, 250,000Z. ; Land Registry (New Buildings) Act, 1900, 7,000Z. ; the Public Offices Site (Dublin) Act, 1903, 45,000Z. ; and the Cunard Agreement (Money) Act, 1904, 130,000Z. ; amounting in the aggregate to 4,582,000Z. The money raised by the creation of additional debt amounted to 4,452,000Z. ; temporary borrowings amounted to 10,600,000?., and these Avere paid off during the year ; Treasury bills and Exchequer bonds were renewed to the amount of 24,680,000/. Besides these items, there were a few other receipts into and issues from the Exchequer account. The balance in the Exchequer on April 1, 1911, was 13,546,171/.; the gross receipts into the Exchequer in the year 1911-12 amounted to 227,006,129/.; the gross issues out of the Exchequer amounted to 229,083,709/. ; leaving a balance on March 31, 1912, of 11,468,591/.

Army Estimates.

I. Ordinary Effective Services : —

1911-12

£ 8,648,000

1912-13

£ 8,536,000

Pay, &c. , of the Army.

Medical Services ....

437,000

486,000

Special Reserve ....

742,000

715,000

Territorial Forces ....

2,766,000

2,780,000

Educational Establishments.

147,000

142,000

Quartering, Transport, Remounts.

1,641,000

1,624,000

Supplies and Clothing.

4,295,000

4,275,000

Ordnance Establishments and genera

stores .....

581,000

615,000

Armaments, Aviation, & Engineer Store

3 1,472,000

1,718,000

Works and Buildings.

2,591,000

2,602,000

Miscellaneous ....

73,000

72,000

War Office

436,000

440,000

Total ordinary effective

. 23,829,000

23,955,000

II. Non-Effective Services : —

Charges for Officers, &c.

1,808,000

1,843,000

Charges for N.C.O.'s and Men

1,900,000

1,917,000

Civil Superannuation, &c.

153,000

145,000

Total non-effective.

3,861,000

3,905,000

Total effective and non-effective

27,690,000

27,860,000

Navy Estimates.

I. Effective Services. Wages of Officers and Seamen and Royal Marines Victualling and Clothing ..... Medical Establishments, kc. .... Martial Law .......

1911-12

£

7,511,500

2,618,800

270,900

3,900

1912-13

£

7,627,000

2,628,100

269,900

3.500