FINANCE
1015
The relief statistics for 1909-10 show expenditure as follows (in yen, exclusive of Formosa) : Shelter, 1,348 ; food, 38,747 ; clothing, 2,072 ; medicine, 153 ; provisional dwellings, 25,361 ; expenditure for providing work, 14,026 ; miscellaneous, 522 ; total, 82,229. Total 1908-9, 435,598 yen.
In 1909 the Central Government relieved 3,753 i^ersons to the amount of 62,979 yen (excluding Formosa). At the end of 1909, 1,736 foundlings (excluding Formosa) were being maintained, and the expense in that year was 53,446 yen. There are, besides, several workhouses established by local corporations and private persons.
Finance. I. Imperial. Revenue and expenditure (excluding Formosa) (the yen = about 24.^d.) : —
—
j 1909-10
1910-11 1911-12
1912-13
1913-141
Revenue . . F'xpenditure .
Yen
677,540,278 . 532,893,635
Yen Yen
672,873,778 573,996,997 569,154,028 573,990,997
Yen , 575,976,995 575,976,995
Yen
584,924,051 584,924,051
1 Estimates.
Summary of the budget estimates for the year ending March 31, 1913.
Revenue 1912-13
Ordinary :— Land-tax . Income tax Business tax Liquor tax Sugar excise Tax on Textile fabrics Customs duties . Various taxes Stamps.
Posts and Telegraph Forests Monopolies Various receipts
Total ordinary . Extraordinary Revenue Total Revenue .
Yen
Expenditure 1912-13
75,407,994 32,725,282 24,595,365 88,481,582 13,789,790 1,863,791 49,S92,207 19,448,228 27,173,962 54,169,441 10,783,188 62,132,412 25,373,954
502,597,196
!
'Ordinary: —
I Civil List . i Foreign affairs 1 Home affairs I Finance I Army I Navy j Justice ! Instruction
Agriculture merce
Communications
and
Com
Yen
4,500,000
4,282,541
12,407,066
185,674,487
76,790,438
40,815,710
12,350,337
9,485,468
7,626,158 58,141,058
73,379,799
575,976,995 (57,597,699Z.)
Total ordinary . . . 412,073,863 Extraordinary expenditure , 163,903,132
Total expenditure
575,976,995 (57,597,6991.)
Public debt, March 31, 1912 -.—Internal loans (4 to 7 per cent.), 1,116,225.770 yen ; foreign loans (4 to 5 percent.), 1,437,449,203 yen ; total, 2,553,704,973 yen.
