868
GERMAN EMPIRE
Years beginning 1 April
1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Army
41,519,535 43,431,395 40,409,030 40,814,985 47,263,435
Navy
17,372,420 20,996,605 22,108,815 22,901,685 23,521,835
Assignments i
£ 9,772,115 6,025,475 9,000,000 8,174,635 9,753,355
Debt
£
8,037,000
8,658,760
11,248,810
14,287,400
12,001,630
i These assignments (Ueberweisungen) are repayments to the various States of the surplus of the revenue from spirit duties.
The following table gives the estimated total revenue and expeudituie for the financial year ending March 31, 1913 : —
Expenditure
Marks
Revenue
Marks
1. Ordinary :—
1. Ordinary :—
Reichstag ....
2,143,200
Customs and Excise .
1,613,999,400
Chancellery
314,600
Posts and Telegraph
791,381,000
Foreign Office .
18,721,400
Printing office .
11,788.000
Home Office
93,510,100
Railways ....
141.7h0,000
Colonial Office .
2,891,100
Banks ....
15,938,000
Imperial Army-.
fi8S,944,600
Various ....
72,142,900
,, Navy .
181,103,200
Income of the Treasury .
104,632,700
Ministry of Justice .
2,859,100
Imperial Treasury .
38,345,600
Debt of Empire
234,463,600
Audit Office
1,306,500
Pension Fund .
143,411, .300
Posts and Telegraphs
667,572,700
Printing Office .
8,561,800
Railways ....
103,587,000
Raihvav Office
484,4(10
Expenditure of theTreasury
96,968,400
Total permanent
2,285,178,500
2. Total transitory
466,483,500
Total ordinary .
2,761,662,000
Total Ordinary.
2,751,662,000
2. Total Extraordinary
134,473,100
3. Extraordinary .
1.34,473,100
Grand total
2,886,135,100
Grand total
2.886,135,100 (144,306,755?.)
(144,306,755?.)
Tlie Federal contributions {Matricular Beitrdge) are assessed according to I)opulation, "^t a rate per head fixed annually in the Imperial budget. For 1913 they were estimated as follows : —
Prussia 7,329,760
Bavaria 1,167,735
Saxony 876,730
Wlirttemberg ... 423,815
Baden 391,060
Hesse 233,955
Mecklenburg-
Schwerin 116,775
Saxe-Weimar 76,125
Mecklenburg-Strelitz 19,425
Oldenburg 88,155
Brunswick 90,200
Saxe-Meiningen ... 50,865
Saxe-Altenburg .. 39,440
Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 46,930
Anhalt 60,420
Schwarzburg-Son-
dershausen 16,410
Schwarzburg-
Rudolstadt 18,375
Waldeck 11,260
Reuss, Elder Branch 13,280
Reuss, Younger
Branch
Schaumburg-Lippe Lippe
27,875
8,515
'J '^,540
Liibeck 21,280
Bremen 54,665
Hamburg 185,190
Alsace-Lorraine ... 342,115
Total ... 11,737,895
In October, 1912, the total funded debt amounted to 4,523,656,700 marks, of which 860,474,500 marks bears interest at 4 per cent. ; 1,982,202,200 marks at 3| per cent. ; 1,680,980,200 marks at 3 per cent. ; the Treasury
