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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