540
MEXICO.
Estimated Expenditure fob 1866
Interest of the public debt Imperial house
Works at palaces and public edifices Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Civil and military pensions . Ministry of Finance and offices Other Ministries and their offices Army and navy Extraordinary expenses .
Total .
Total expenditure Total revenue
Total deficit
depend
Dollars 8,000,000 4,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000
10,000,000 2,000,000
29,500,000
29.500,000 16,5 00,000 13^000,000
The actual deficit was reported much larger than indicated in the foregoing statement ; the expenditure having been far above the estimates, and the revenue somewhat below. The revenue of the country, at different periods, amounted to the following sums : —
Year Dollars Year Dollars
1700 . . . 3,000,000 I 1829 . . . 14,493,189
1763 . . . 5,705,876 1830 . . . 18,923,299
1802 . . 20,200,00'0 1831 . . . 16,413,060
1825 . . . 10,690,608
1826 . . . 13,289,682
1827 . . . 10,494,299
1828 . . - 12,232,385 The subjoined tabular statement shows the state of the Mexican
debt, both as regards capital and annual interest, in pounds sterling, on August 1, 1865 : —
1844 f ^ e P ubl A icUnder I 19,421,863 \ Santa Anna . )
1851 5 ? e P ublicunder } 10,148,563 ) Arista . .J
1861 [Republic under 1 n 350 oo ^ Juarez . . J
Old English Three per Cent. Loan, as per settlement
of 1851
Three per Cent. Stock, created 1864, for settlement of
overdue coupons of old loan .... Six per Cent. Anglo-French Loan of 1864 Six per Cent. Lottery Loan of 1865 . Interest £600,000, Lottery Prizes £120,000, Sinking
Fund £250,000
Six per Cent. Internal Mexican Debt, circa Admitted Claims of Foreigners bearing interest at
6 per cent. ........
Amount due to French Government for war expenses
at 31st March, 1865
Annual Payment to France on account of War Ex
penses, as per Paris Convention of 1864
Total ;
Capital
& 10,241,650
4,864,800 12,365,000 10,000,000
7,000,000
6,000,000
13,000,000
63,471,450 3,945,094
Annual interest
307,205
145,944 741,900
970,000 420,000
360,000
1,000,000
