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MEXICO IN 1827.
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the Capital alone. There were only nine bishops, including the Primate, the See of Chiapa not being then considered as annexed to Mexico. Their revenues were supposed to be:—

Dollars
Those of the Archbishop of Mexico 130,000
Of the Bishop of La Puebla 110,000
Valladolid 100,000
Guadalajara 90,000
Durango 35,000
Monterey 30,000
Yucatan 20,000
Oaxaca 18,000
Sonora 6,000
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Total 439,000

This income was produced, principally, by that portion of the tithes, which was destined for the subsistence of the Clergy. The annual average amount of these, (upon a term of ten years given by Humboldt) appears to have been, in the year 1790:—

In Dollars Reals.
Mexico 708,287 7
La Puebla 350,888 3
Valladolid 323,940
Oaxaca 86,323 5
Guadalajara 257,910 6
Durango 108,031 3
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Total 1,835,382