FINANCE
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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
