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MEXICO IN 1827.
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will place Mr. Esteva's views in the clearest possible light.
The first and second parts of this Report, contained an estimate of the gross receipts of the twelve month which was about to commence, calculated upon those of the two preceding years.
These were rated at 10,690,608 dollars, from which, however, were to be deducted 1,317,543 dollars, being the available amount then remaining of Goldschmidt's Loan; so that the whole produce of the Mexican Revenue, in 1825, was not supposed to exceed 9,373,065 dollars.
Against this, an expenditure of nearly Eighteen millions of dollars, (without including the interest upon the Foreign Loans,) was set by the third part of the Report, viz.:—
| Dollars. | |||||
| Expense of collecting Revenue, Salaries, &c. | 920,235 | 7 | 9 | ||
| Ministry of Interior, and Foreign Affairs | 105,737 | ||||
| Ministry of Justice and Ecclesiastical Affairs | 77,220 | ||||
| Ministry of War | 12,000,000 | ||||
| Ministry of the Navy | 2,934,533 | 4 | |||
| Ministry of Finance | 1,083,143 | 1 | |||
| Credits against Government, payable in 1825 | 865,804 | 7 | 8 | ||
| ———————— | |||||
| Total | 17,986,674 | 4 | 8 | ||
