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 * width=290|Amount brought forward,
 * width=70|
 * width=70 |$3,800,000
 * Pay of Oidores, and other persons employed in judicial functions and measures for the conversion of the Indians,
 * |250,000
 * Pensions,
 * |200,000
 * Hospital expenses, repairs of factories,
 * |400,800
 * Return of imposts,
 * |1,496,000
 * |$6,146,800
 * Amount of Income,
 * $14,449,696
 * "" Expenses,
 * $6,146,800
 * Balance,
 * |$8,302,896
 * }
 * |1,496,000
 * |$6,146,800
 * Amount of Income,
 * $14,449,696
 * "" Expenses,
 * $6,146,800
 * Balance,
 * |$8,302,896
 * }
 * Amount of Income,
 * $14,449,696
 * "" Expenses,
 * $6,146,800
 * Balance,
 * |$8,302,896
 * }
 * Balance,
 * |$8,302,896
 * }
 * Balance,
 * |$8,302,896
 * }
 * Balance,
 * |$8,302,896
 * }
 * }

This was then the clear income of Mexico in the year 1809. The same amount may be considered as the usual yearly revenue from the close of the eighteenth century, and if we deduct a half of this sum as being afterwards expended on this side of the Atlantic, it may be calculated that about four millions of dollars were transmitted to Spain annually.

In order to judge what regions of New Spain were most productive in mineral wealth and their relative productiveness, we will insert the value of the royal dues upon silver, amounting in all to the rate of 10½ per cent, in 1795, in which year $24,593,481 were coined in gold and silver at the Mexican mint.

All the mines in the Spanish possessions consumed annually 30,000 quintal of quicksilver, which, at the rate if $50, (at which they might be calculated, on anaverage of years) amounts to a millon and a half.

When fifteen millions were annually coined theking received 6 per ct. upon that sum; and when the amount exceeded 18 millions, scarcely 7. Thus difference was owing to the rules and system of the mint, in which there were the same expenses in coining from