FINANCE
Finance.^
603
Revenue
Years
1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
Dollars Gold
64,527,983 68,197,676 74,165,574 85,842,460
89,281,681
Dollars Paper
97,153,870 99,237,264 116,607,826 109,914,147 310,594,460 128,751,718
Ordinary Expenditure
Dollars Gold
Dollars Paper
Extraordinary Expenditure
25,521,412 2.0,569,879 25,907,778 28,203,295 27,490.968 29,909^343
186,107,1072
175,132,993
199,779,238
202,939,698
260,860,189
248,764,942
Dollars Gold
1,837,773 44,326,345
41,021,827
Dollars Paper
29,364,000 47,783,6S4
1 Gold dollar = 4«. ; paper dollar = Is. 9;\<7., under conversion law. " Excluding exti'aordinary expenditure.
The national budget of Argentina for 1913 is fixed at 348,572,812 dollars paper (30,430,999Z). The expenditure is distributed as follows :—
Expenditure
Dollars Paper
Congress Interior , Foreign Affairs Treasury .
PnVilin l">aV>f
5,178,580 45,466,287
5,028,308 21,073,964 79,446,194 49,800,000 29,123,262 26,358,076 15,700,597
8,754,360
10,300,000
Justice and Education
Army
Navy ...
Agriculture .
Public Works .
Pensions, &c. .
Military purchases .
Total
308,741,629
Extraordinary income is estimated at 76,849,913 pesos paper (6,709,317/). The national debt for the last 3 years was ns follows : —
Foreign
Dollars gold.
311,513,829 308,554,074 303,719,787
Internal
1909 1910 1911
Dollars gold
87,483,900
92,536,900
161,367,600
Dollars paper.
115,245,300 121,534,230 139,665,940
The total service of the national debi for 1911 is 6,654,50H. sterling.
The total of provincial and municipal debts was (1911) 48,854,185/, Tho total debt of the nation (internal, external, and floating) was 109,282,923^. This works out at 17Z. IO5, 1^^. per head of the population.
