868

GERMAN EMPIRE

Years beginning 1 April

1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Army

41,519,535 43,431,395 40,409,030 40,814,985 47,263,435

Navy

17,372,420 20,996,605 22,108,815 22,901,685 23,521,835

Assignments i

£ 9,772,115 6,025,475 9,000,000 8,174,635 9,753,355

Debt

£

8,037,000

8,658,760

11,248,810

14,287,400

12,001,630

i These assignments (Ueberweisungen) are repayments to the various States of the surplus of the revenue from spirit duties.

The following table gives the estimated total revenue and expeudituie for the financial year ending March 31, 1913 : —

Expenditure

Marks

Revenue

Marks

1. Ordinary :—

1. Ordinary :—

Reichstag ....

2,143,200

Customs and Excise .

1,613,999,400

Chancellery

314,600

Posts and Telegraph

791,381,000

Foreign Office .

18,721,400

Printing office .

11,788.000

Home Office

93,510,100

Railways ....

141.7h0,000

Colonial Office .

2,891,100

Banks ....

15,938,000

Imperial Army-.

fi8S,944,600

Various ....

72,142,900

,, Navy .

181,103,200

Income of the Treasury .

104,632,700

Ministry of Justice .

2,859,100

Imperial Treasury .

38,345,600

Debt of Empire

234,463,600

Audit Office

1,306,500

Pension Fund .

143,411, .300

Posts and Telegraphs

667,572,700

Printing Office .

8,561,800

Railways ....

103,587,000

Raihvav Office

484,4(10

Expenditure of theTreasury

96,968,400

Total permanent

2,285,178,500

2. Total transitory

466,483,500

Total ordinary .

2,761,662,000

Total Ordinary.

2,751,662,000

2. Total Extraordinary

134,473,100

3. Extraordinary .

1.34,473,100

Grand total

2,886,135,100

Grand total

2.886,135,100 (144,306,755?.)

(144,306,755?.)

Tlie Federal contributions {Matricular Beitrdge) are assessed according to I)opulation, "^t a rate per head fixed annually in the Imperial budget. For 1913 they were estimated as follows : —

Prussia 7,329,760

Bavaria 1,167,735

Saxony 876,730

Wlirttemberg ... 423,815

Baden 391,060

Hesse 233,955

Mecklenburg-

Schwerin 116,775

Saxe-Weimar 76,125

Mecklenburg-Strelitz 19,425

Oldenburg 88,155

Brunswick 90,200

Saxe-Meiningen ... 50,865

Saxe-Altenburg .. 39,440

Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 46,930

Anhalt 60,420

Schwarzburg-Son-

dershausen 16,410

Schwarzburg-

Rudolstadt 18,375

Waldeck 11,260

Reuss, Elder Branch 13,280

Reuss, Younger

Branch

Schaumburg-Lippe Lippe

27,875

8,515

'J '^,540

Liibeck 21,280

Bremen 54,665

Hamburg 185,190

Alsace-Lorraine ... 342,115

Total ... 11,737,895

In October, 1912, the total funded debt amounted to 4,523,656,700 marks, of which 860,474,500 marks bears interest at 4 per cent. ; 1,982,202,200

marks at 3| per cent. ; 1,680,980,200 marks at 3 per cent. ; the Treasury