STATE FINANCE
665
Year
1907 1908
Total
Entries
4,469 4,635
Mean Population
5,127 5,421
Year
Total
Entries
Mean Population
1909 1910
4,751 4,597
5,724 5,676
State Finance.
Ke venue and expenditure in thousands of francs :—
Revenue
Years
Ordinary
1908 1909 1910 1911 1912
l.OOOfr. 616,986 645,107 682,487 686,194 703,883
Extra- ordinary
l.OOOfr.
82,434 150,109 132,918
47,436
Total
l.OOOfr. 699,420 795,216 815,405 733,630
Expenditure
Ordinary
l.OOOfr. 613,021 634,450 672,954 664,553 703,445
Special
l,000fr. 157,430 151,747 156,502 121,761
Total
l.OOOfr. 770,451 786,197 829,456 786,114
Heads of the proposed budget for 1913 : —
Revenue
Property taxes
Personal taxes
Trade licences
Mines • . . •
Customs
Excise ....
Various receipts .
Registration, &c. .
Succession .
Stamps .
Fines, &c.
Rivers, Canals, &c.
Railways
Telegraphs and Telephones
Post office .
Steam boats .
Domains, forests, &c. .
Various x^ro^ts (Bank
Moniteur, &c.) . Repayments .
Total
Francs
30,000,000
26,862,000
17,500,000
680,000
67,270,650
87,396,500
1,652,500
44,000,000
28,000,000
11,500,000
2,853,000
4,280,000
347.500,000
21,260,000
26,273,250
2,208,000
5,195,000
24,079,625 9,144,124
Expenditure
Public debt . Civil list, dotations . Ministries : Justice
Foreign Affairs . Interior
Sciences and Arts . Industry and Labour Railways, Posts, Tele
graphs ... War and Gendarmerie Finance
757,654,649 (30,306,185?.)
Public works culture . Colonies . Repayments, &c.
Total
and Asri
Francs
209,371,718 5,586,550
31,862,733
4,970,486
7,830,305
42,199,849
27,345,500
284,256,863 81,497,265 25,237,150
31,128,207 1,421.483 2,826,000
755,540,109 (30,221, 604^)
National liabilities on January 1, 1912 : —
Share of the Netherlands debt at 2^ per cent. Loans at 3 per cent. ....
Total .
Francs 219,959,632
3,514,394,406
3,734,354,038
(148,188,652Z.)
Almost- the' 'entire debt was raised for and devoted to works of public
utility. There is a sinking fund for all descriptions of the debt, except the