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MEXICO IN 1827.


Estimate of Mexican Revenue in 1828.

Gross Receipts in 1826. Net Produce in 1826. Probable Produce in 1828.
Dollars. Dollars. Dollars.
Importation Duties 7,043,237 6,854,633 8,000,000
Tobacco 1,582,616 1,361,626 2,500,000
Contingent 1,368,452 1,368,452 1,573,756
Gunpowder 159,840 132,522 250,000
Post-office 224,543 87,462 320,000
Lottery 106,887 49,153 120,000
Salinas 65,813 44,921 75,000
Mint 170,670 15,607 250,000
Inquisition (Property of) 26,440 15,010 30,000
Temporalidades (Convent property, &c.) 34,456 21,475 40,000
Duty on Silver exported 48,525 48,525 75,000
Stamps 14,840 434 20,000
Pulque 29,353 29,353 35,000
Assay and Apartado Duties 21,074 19,128 21,074
Fondo de Californias 11,247 11,197 12,000
Averia 539,886 529,850 540,000
Peages (Turnpikes) 66,740 45,542 70,000
11,514,619 10,634,890 13,931,830

Or, in round numbers, Fourteen millions of dollars, (allowing 68,170 dollars for arrears due, and other contingent receipts), which sum, I am convinced, that the country can only be prevented, by very great mismanagement, from producing.

Indeed, if Mr. Esteva's calculations can be depended upon, the Revenue has already very nearly equalled, my estimate for the year 1828.

The 11,514,619 dollars given in the preceding