Civil List

In English politics. An annual sum granted by parliament, at the commencement of each reign, for the expense of the royal household and establishment, as distinguished from the general exigencies of the state, being a provision made for the crown out of the taxes in lieu of its proper patrimony, and in consideration of the assignment of that patrimony to the public use.

2 Steph. Com. 691. 1 Bl. Com. 332.

The term civil list was formerly applied m England to the list of all the expenses of the government, or of all the heads of public expenditure, excepting those of the anny, the navy, and the other military departments. Id, ibid.

Brande.

And this seems to be its present meaning as applied to the expenditures of the government of the United States.