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1824, as their receipts, under all the disadvantages of a system new in all its parts, and confided, in its first application, to agents unfitted, in many instances, by long habits of corruption, for any very strenuous exertions, afford, certainly, the very best evidence of increasing commercial activity. I shall, therefore, give a Comparative Table of their amount:—

	Produce in dollars.
	1824.	1826, 10 months.
Campeche	115,033	157,464
Isla del Carmen		19,280
Tabasco	7,446	36,682
Tămpīcŏ (Pueblo Viejo)	367,680	480,195
Tămpīcŏ de Tămăulīpăs		326,640
Refugio and Soto la Marina

In	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1823		14,538	378,734
		1824		113,119
Acapulco	$\scriptstyle {\left\{{\begin{matrix}\ \end{matrix}}\right.}$	1821		20,362	422,343
		1824		100,308
Măzătlān				30,392	125,298
Gūāymăs in 1821				26,736	44,676

I must again state that the sums given in the preceding Table are not meant to convey any idea of the value of the Imports introduced through the different ports, but merely to show what has been done towards the organization of a system, by which the amount of these Imports may, hereafter, be ascertained.