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 REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

H3

Years

Total Amount

Tears

Total Amount

1862 ....

1863 ....

1864 ....

Total for the 3 f Florins years £

Florins 15,223,722 15,719,233 16,239,688

1865.

1866.

1867.

Florins 16,467.307 16,984,232 17,741,169

47,182,643 3,931,887

51,192,708 4,266,059

The average expenditure for the two financial periods amounted, exclusive of the construction of railways, canals, roads, and other public works, to 15,223,786 florins, or 1,268,649/. per annum. The details of the expenditure were : —

Civil list of the king

Allowances to other members of the royal family

Public debt

Salaries and pensions

Department of foreign affairs ....

„ of justice .....

„ of the interior ....

„ of education and ecclesiastical affairs

„ of war .....

,, of finance .....

Parliamentary representation .... Miscellaneous ....

Total

Florins

882,400

244,792

3,527,665

940,130

213,866

1,068,685

1,752,958

1.947.019

3,586,249

811,270

178,687

70.065

15,223,786 £1,268,649

The public debt of Wiirtemberg has more than doubled within the last tAventy years, owing chiefly to the establishment of the railway lines of the kingdom, the whole of Avhich, without exception, are State property. The capital of the funded debt, at five annual periods, was as follows : —

Florins

,-e

1862 December 31

70,343,442

5,861,953

1864 „.

76,578.542

6,381,545

1866 „ ..

84,406,940

7,033,911

1867 May 11

98.343,670

8,195,306

1868 „ ...

126,860,470

10,571,706

The whole capital of the funded debt was borrowed at from 3^- to A\ per cent., and the net income of the railways, all expenses deducted, and making allowance for wear and tear, amounting to between six and seven per cent., the investment so made has con- tributed, and is contributing, largely towards lightening the burthens of the taxpayers.