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of revenue proportionately important is derived from the profits of various Federal manufactories, such as gunpowder and percussion caps, and from the growing proceeds of the military school and laboratory at Thun, near Bern.
The following two tables, drawn up after documents furnished to the Statesman's Year-book by the President of the Federal Council, give the revenue and expenditure of the government of the re- public in each of the years 1867 and 1868 : —
Sources of Revenue
Produce of Real Property and Invested Capital : — Eeal property ......
Invested capital ......
Total
Interest on Sums advanced to Cantons .
Duties and Administrations : — Customs .... Posts ....
Telegraphs Manufacture of gunpowder
„ of percussion caps
Polytechnic school Government stud Military Academy at Thun. Laboratory at Thun .
Total
Receipts of Departments :— Department of Chancery ., War . ,, „ Justice
Miscellaneous Receipts
Total Revenue
Francs
66.208 125,038
191.246
132,020
8,331,159
8.770.428 823,538 632,438 31,108 69,113 104,350 148,657 471,695
19,382,479
7.369 52,686
1,002
61,057
15,157
19,781,960 791.278
Francs 66,424 146,564
212.988
144,574
9,051,399
8,814,716
921,182
675,800
153.356
20.000
68,400
204.475
1,038,209
20,947,536
6,804 49,813
722
57,339
149
21,362.633 854,505
The expenditure of each of the years 1867 and 1868 was as
follows: —
