540

MEXICO.

Estimated Expenditure fob 1866

Interest of the public debt Imperial house

Works at palaces and public edifices Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Civil and military pensions . Ministry of Finance and offices Other Ministries and their offices Army and navy Extraordinary expenses .

Total .

Total expenditure Total revenue

Total deficit

depend

Dollars 8,000,000 4,000,000 1,000,000 1,000,000 1,500,000 1,000,000 1,000,000

10,000,000 2,000,000

29,500,000

29.500,000 16,5 00,000 13^000,000

The actual deficit was reported much larger than indicated in the foregoing statement ; the expenditure having been far above the estimates, and the revenue somewhat below. The revenue of the country, at different periods, amounted to the following sums : —

Year Dollars Year Dollars

1700 . . . 3,000,000 I 1829 . . . 14,493,189

1763 . . . 5,705,876 1830 . . . 18,923,299

1802 . . 20,200,00'0 1831 . . . 16,413,060

1825 . . . 10,690,608

1826 . . . 13,289,682

1827 . . . 10,494,299

1828 . . - 12,232,385 The subjoined tabular statement shows the state of the Mexican

debt, both as regards capital and annual interest, in pounds sterling, on August 1, 1865 : —

1844 f ^ e P ubl A icUnder I 19,421,863 \ Santa Anna . )

1851 5 ? e P ublicunder } 10,148,563 ) Arista . .J

1861 [Republic under 1 n 350 oo ^ Juarez . . J

Old English Three per Cent. Loan, as per settlement

of 1851

Three per Cent. Stock, created 1864, for settlement of

overdue coupons of old loan .... Six per Cent. Anglo-French Loan of 1864 Six per Cent. Lottery Loan of 1865 . Interest £600,000, Lottery Prizes £120,000, Sinking

Fund £250,000

Six per Cent. Internal Mexican Debt, circa Admitted Claims of Foreigners bearing interest at

6 per cent. ........

Amount due to French Government for war expenses

at 31st March, 1865

Annual Payment to France on account of War Ex

penses, as per Paris Convention of 1864

Total ;

Capital

& 10,241,650

4,864,800 12,365,000 10,000,000

7,000,000

6,000,000

13,000,000

63,471,450 3,945,094

Annual interest

307,205

145,944 741,900

970,000 420,000

360,000

1,000,000