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STATE FINANCE

665

Year

1907 1908

Total

Entries

4,469 4,635

Mean Population

5,127 5,421

Year

Total

Entries

Mean Population

1909 1910

4,751 4,597

5,724 5,676

State Finance.

Ke venue and expenditure in thousands of francs :—

Revenue

Years

Ordinary

1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

l.OOOfr. 616,986 645,107 682,487 686,194 703,883

Extra- ordinary

l.OOOfr.

82,434 150,109 132,918

47,436

Total

l.OOOfr. 699,420 795,216 815,405 733,630

Expenditure

Ordinary

l.OOOfr. 613,021 634,450 672,954 664,553 703,445

Special

l,000fr. 157,430 151,747 156,502 121,761

Total

l.OOOfr. 770,451 786,197 829,456 786,114

Heads of the proposed budget for 1913 : —

Revenue

Property taxes

Personal taxes

Trade licences

Mines • . . •

Customs

Excise ....

Various receipts .

Registration, &c. .

Succession .

Stamps .

Fines, &c.

Rivers, Canals, &c.

Railways

Telegraphs and Telephones

Post office .

Steam boats .

Domains, forests, &c. .

Various x^ro^ts (Bank

Moniteur, &c.) . Repayments .

Total

Francs

30,000,000

26,862,000

17,500,000

680,000

67,270,650

87,396,500

1,652,500

44,000,000

28,000,000

11,500,000

2,853,000

4,280,000

347.500,000

21,260,000

26,273,250

2,208,000

5,195,000

24,079,625 9,144,124

Expenditure

Public debt . Civil list, dotations . Ministries : Justice

Foreign Affairs . Interior

Sciences and Arts . Industry and Labour Railways, Posts, Tele

graphs ... War and Gendarmerie Finance

757,654,649 (30,306,185?.)

Public works culture . Colonies . Repayments, &c.

Total

and Asri

Francs

209,371,718 5,586,550

31,862,733

4,970,486

7,830,305

42,199,849

27,345,500

284,256,863 81,497,265 25,237,150

31,128,207 1,421.483 2,826,000

755,540,109 (30,221, 604^)

National liabilities on January 1, 1912 : —

Share of the Netherlands debt at 2^ per cent. Loans at 3 per cent. ....

Total .

Francs 219,959,632

3,514,394,406

3,734,354,038

(148,188,652Z.)

Almost- the' 'entire debt was raised for and devoted to works of public utility. There is a sinking fund for all descriptions of the debt, except the