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 * || || || Dollars. || Rials. || ||
 * colspan="3" | Common Branches || 462,944 || 1½ || ||
 * colspan="3" | Deduct || || || ||
 * | Alcavalas || 157,681 || 5 || ||
 * | Gunpowder || 3,872 || 1 || ||
 * || colspan="2" |
 * 161,553 || 6 || ||
 * || || || colspan="2" |
 * 301,390 || 3½
 * colspan="3" | Particular Branches || 313,330 || 2 || ||
 * colspan="3" | Deduct; Tobacco || 256,975 || 2 || ||
 * || || || colspan="2" |
 * 56,355 ||
 * || || || || || colspan="2" |
 * || || || || Total || 357,355 || 3½
 * }
 * colspan="3" | Particular Branches || 313,330 || 2 || ||
 * colspan="3" | Deduct; Tobacco || 256,975 || 2 || ||
 * || || || colspan="2" |
 * 56,355 ||
 * || || || || || colspan="2" |
 * || || || || Total || 357,355 || 3½
 * }
 * || || || || || colspan="2" |
 * || || || || Total || 357,355 || 3½
 * }
 * }

If therefore, as it is fair to expect, the country shall begin to feel the benefit of the liberal institutions it has adopted with regard to trade and other objects likely to conduce to its advancement, its revenue must naturally increase, and it may be reasonably presumed that the above sum of 357,745d. 3½r. which was collected by the old régime is not greater than what may be expected to be obtained by the several federal states under their own dispositions of government; and, should it be the case, the same might, perhaps, be fully adequate to the expenses which they