1260
SPAIN
The estimates for 1913 are as follows, meet expenditure for action in Morocco.
The expenditure was increased to
Revenue
Expenditure
Pesetas
Pesetas
Direct taxes on land, trade,
Civil list ....
8,750,000
mines, Government salaries
Cortes
2,486,000
registration, &g.
481,365,468
Public debt.
. 410,514,845
Indirect taxes, customs.
Pensions ....
78,200,000
excise, &c
415,100,000
President of Council
808,079
Tobacco monopoly, lottery.
Ministry of State
6,114,537
mint, and minor sundries .
215,838,000
,, Justice' .
19,512,052
National property :
,, Worship
41,016,953
Revenue ....
22,899,254
„ War . .
. 159,788,979
Sales
1,339,000
„ Marine .
70,672,712
Public treasury ....
28,762,750
„ Interior .
79,309,477
,, Instruction .
62,711,373
,, Public Works,
&c. 90,840,379
,, Finance
17,964,325
Tax collecting .
. 40,760,245
Spanish possessions in Gulf
of Guinea
1,900,000
Action in Morocco .
Total . . .
51,386,905
Total ....
1,165,304,472
. 1,142,736,861
The National Debt of Spain on January 1, 1913 (last official figures available) amounted to 9,399,440,855 pesetas, composed as follows : —
External Debt : —
4 per cent, perpetual exterior debt — sealed bonds Internal Debt : —
4 per cent, perpetual internal debt
5 4)er cent, redeemable debt .... 4 per cent, redeemable debt (1908) Non-interest bearing debt due to officials . ' Pagares ' of the Ministry of the Colonies
Pesetas. 1,028,300,200
6,524,380,364 1,590,427.500
155,332,500 1,000,291
100,000,000
Defence.
Army.
Military service in Spain is compulsory (Law of June 29, 1911). The total term of service is for 18 years ; 3 are spent in the active army (generally reduced to 2), 3 are spent in the first reserve, 6 are spent in the second reserve, and the rest in the "territorial reserve." The second' reserve forms second line, or reserve troops on, mobilisation, and the men not required for these formations are available for supplying casualties on field service. There is at present no organisation for the "territorial reserve."
The country is divided up into 8 territorial districts, each under a ' Cajitain-General.' The 1st to 6th inclusive each furnish to the field army 2 divisions, the remaining two, 1 division. A division consists of 2 infantry brigades, each consisting of 2 regiments of 3 battalions, but the third battalion is only a cadre in peace time, 1 regiment of cavalry, 1 regiment of field artillery of 5 batteries, 1 regiment of engineers. There are also 3 independent brigades of chasseurs, each of 6 battalions, 4 regiments of mountain artillery, making 14 batteries, and 1 regiment of horse artillery of 5 batteries. Batteries have 4 guns. There is 1 permanent cavalry
