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 296 MEXICO. For the information of those who may wish to see, more in detail, the various items of the Public Expenditure in the different Departments, I annex a Table of the Estimates of each, as given in the Finance Report of 1827. Of the Revenues of the States, which consist, in general, of 1. Mint duties. 2. Alcavalas. 3. Three per cent, duty on foreign goods consumed in the territory of each State, (granted by General Congress.) Pro- fits on sale of tobacco. 4. Three per cent, on silver exported. 5. Stamps. 6. Income tax, (where established by State Congress,) and such Municipal Duties, 7- On Pulque, Theatres, Bull-fights, Cock-pits, &c. as each State may think fit to enact, I shall have occasion to speak more at large, in Books V. and VI. which contain an account of my journey into the Interior. Here, they are only of importance inasmuch as they do, or do not, enable the States to cover their engage- ments with the Federation, on which the Public Revenue, and, consequently, the Public Credit, in part, depends. This point has been already considered.