The Sun.
London, England, 1837-10-19 00:00:00

EXPENDITURE.

parliamentary expenses, including parliamentary £ s. d.
agents and fees, solicitor's bills and fees to counsel,
witnesses, canvassing, taking road-traffic, hire of
committee-rooms, and all other law charges and dis-
bursements, up to the time when the Act of Par-
liament for constructing this line received the
Royal Assent
Engineering, including surveys of the whole line,
plans, and sections, maps, professional evidence in
Parliament, and all other expences and disburse-
ments in this department, up to the time when the
Act received the Royal Assent
Travelling expences of Directors and others, before,
and up to, the time of obtaining the Act, and coun-
try agency employed in relation to the line generally 1,730 2 10
Printing, advertising, stationery, bookbinding, and va-
rious incidental expences in Bristol and London,
from the first projection of the undertaking to this
time ..
Expences connected with ascertaining and setting out
the line since the passing of the Act 1,719 3 3
Purchase of machinery, implements, utensils, tools,
maps, plans, &e., for use on the line, and at the en-
gineer's office
Cost of the enginecer's office, furniture, and dis-
bursements
Expences at the head office in Bristol, consisting of
salaries to secretary, book-keepers, and other clerks,
office furniture, rent, travelling expences, postage,
carriage of parcels, &c. . .
Salaries in the engineering and surveying depart-
ment, and draftsmen's salaries
Purchase of land, surveying, and valuing, and com-
pensation for damages
Law charges and disbursements since the Act was ob-
tained
Direction from May 19, 1836, to 30th June, 1837 1,800 0 0
Payments to contractors, and expences relating to
their contracts

Balance in the hands of the bankers £47,671 7 5
47,763 14 5
Balance in the hands of the secretary - 92 7 0

£97,220 13 5

Since the period to which the above account is made up, viz.,
the 30th of June, the Directors have made various additional pay-
ments for the purchase of land, compensation for damages, wages on
the line, and advances to the contractor, amounting to the sum of
10,265/. 15s. ld., by which means the said balance of 47,671/.75. Id.,
stated to be in the banker's hands on the 30th of June last, is re-
duced to the sum of 37,4051. 12s. 4d.

£47,671 7 5

Land and compensation ...E7,837 1(1 3

Contractor
Wages, &c., on the line 812 10 0
Other payments ...... 19 11

-------10,t164 15 1

£37,405 12 4

Epitome of the Estimate alluded to in the Report, of Traffic between
Bristol and Bridgwater.
Ten Coaches from London to Bridgwater, Taunton, and Exeter
viz. :=Swiftsure, North Devon, Exeter and Devonport Mail,
Exeter and Falmouth Mail, Bath and Exeter Mail, Traveller,
Telegraph, Herald, Subscription, Defiance.
Nine Coaches from Bristol to Bridgwater, Minehead, Taunton,
and Exeter, viz. : —Self Defence, Speculator, John O'Groat,
Bristol and Exeter Mail, Exquisite, Times, lice-hire, Tam
O'Shanter, Retaliator.
Five Coaches from Bath to Exeter, Taunton, Tiverton, Barn-
staple, and Lyme, viz. :—White Hart, Fast Coach, York House
Day Coach, Lion Day Coach, York House Coach, Perseverance.
Seven from Bristol and Bath to Weston, Clevedon, Yatton, and
Wrington, viz. :—Magnet, Sovereign, and five others.
These Coaches carry Passengers travelling
4,144,192 miles per annum, which doubled,
and taken at 2d. per mile, produce
.....ot),0 4 0
To which, add parcels, cattle, goods,
proved by Parliamentary evideneL a
41,330 4 11

From wi Yield a gross revenue of 110,383 8 11
~ieh deduct one-third for exponsos

Thus producing a profit on 351. per share, or
525,000/. of paid-up capital, of above 13 per
cent. (neat revenue) £73,588 19 3

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