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CUSTOM-HOUSE REVENUE.
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in the following year fell to little more than 5,000,000, which is about its present average. This sum may be divided among the different ports as follows:—

Dollars.
Vera Cruz 3,329,802
Tampico 883,039
Matamoras 312,403
Mazatlan 383,159
Guyamas 55,814
Monterey 96,853
Acapulco 17,182
San Blas 208,845
5,287,097

This corresponds to about 12,300,000 dollars' value of importation annually, divided (according to an estimate) in the following manner:—

Dollars.
From England 4,500,000
" France 3,000,000
" Hamburgh. 1,500,000
" China 1,000,000
" United States. 800,000
" Spain 500,000
" Genoa, and other ports. 1,000,000
12,300,000

The expense to the government, for the collection of this revenue, is about 348,290 dollars.