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MEXICO IN 1827.


Dollars.
Brought forward 13,000,000
Indian Capitation tax 1,300,000
Duty on Pulque 800,000
Importation and Exportation duties 500,000
Cruzada, (sale of Bulls, &c.) 270,000
Post-office (renta de correos) 250,000
Gunpowder (estanco de polvora) 150,000
Media Anata and Mesada, (both ecclesiastical contributions) 100,000
Cards (estanco de naypes) 120,000
Stamps (papel sellado). 80,000
Licenses for Cockpits (estanco de gallos) 45,000
Snow (estanco de nieve) 30,000
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Net annual produce in 1803 16,645,000

Gross amount of receipts, according to tables formed by Count Revillagigedo, in 1790, and by the Viceroy Iturrigaray, in 1803, Twenty millions of dollars: viz:

Dollars.
Produce of Alcavalas, Indian Capitation-tax, and Duties on the precious metals 10,747,878
Produce of the Monopolies of Tobacco, Cards, Powder, Quicksilver, &c. 6,899,830
Cruzada, Tithes, Medias anatas, &c. 530,425
Revenues of Lands, &c. under the inspection of the Government.—obras pias 1,897,128
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Total 20,075,261
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