[96] Estimate for 1910-11. Total Federal revenue, £16,841,629; revenue from Customs and Excise, £111,700,000. Total Federal expenditure £11,122,297. £5,267,500 will be available for return to the State exchequers (see pp. [245]-[246]).
[97] The Treasury Returns of 1869, "Public Income and Expenditure," in two volumes, are the basis of all information up to that date.
[98] Mr. Secretary Pelham in this year estimated that Ireland, though contributing nothing in money to the Navy, had furnished no less than 38,000 men to the Navy since the beginning of the war.
[99] Pre-Union Debts were to be separate. Post-Union Debt contracted for Imperial services was to be regarded as joint, and its charge was to be borne by the two countries in the proportions of their respective contributions (see below); but post-Union Debt contracted by Ireland for domestic services was to be kept separate.
[100] Eight lectures delivered in the National University, Dublin, in 1911.
[101] Inhabited house duty, railway passenger tax, carriages, armorial bearings, etc. The license for dogs is half the English scale.
[102] On Foster's Corn Law of 1784, see p. [51].
[103] The text of the unanimous conclusions was as follows:
1. That Great Britain and Ireland must, for the purpose of this inquiry, be considered as separate entities.
2. That the Act of Union imposed upon Ireland a burden which, as events showed, she was unable to bear.