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 THE ZOLLVEREIN. 107

All the receipts of the Zollverein are paid into a common exchequer, and distributed, pro rata of population, among the members of the league. The chief sources of revenue are import and export duties, and taxes upon spirits, wine, sugar manufactured from beet- roots, and tobacco, that of imports being by far the most important. The gross receipts of the customs of the Zollverein in the year 1865 amounted to 23,991,085 thaler, of which there came from import dues 23,923,365 thaler, and from export dues 991,085 thaler. In comparison with the year 1864 there was a diminu- tion in the receipts from import dues of 445,7-19 thaler, and from export dues of 95,507 thaler, making a total of 541,25(3 thaler, or 81,188/. The share of the amount of receipts coming to Prussia, when the division was made, was 10,820,271 thaler, or 1,623,940/. The total receipts from the spirit tax amounted, for 1865, to 11,553,867 thaler, or 1,733,080/., and the transit dues upon spirits, for the same period, to 9,853 thaler, or 1,478/. After deducting for defects of registration, compensation-, back payments, &c. there remained lor division the sum of 9,145,684 thaler, or 1,871,855/., of which stun Prussia and the states and countries in close union with her received the sum of 7,773.745 thaler, or 1,166,069/. 15s. As regards the production of sugar from beet-roots, there were, in the year 1865. in employment 295 factories, of which 252 were in Prussia; 25,605,694 centners of fresh beet-roots were used, and the tax upon beet-root sugar, inclusive of register defects, deduction of back payments, and expenses of administration, amounted to 6,148,304 thaler, or 922,245/., of which Prussia received 3,252,144 thaler, or 487,821Z. The duties levied on wine in the year 1865 amounted to 106,393 thaler, or 15,809/., and those upon tobacco leaves and tobacco manufactures to 120,313 thaler, or 18,046/. The total sum for division was 226,982 thaler, or 34,047/., of which Prussia received 156,886 thaler, or 23,531/. There were used for the cultivation of tobacco in the Zollverein 92,914 Prussian morgen — in Prussia about 28,154 morgen — and the amount of tobacco obtained from the dried leaves was 676,140 centners — in Prussia 185,423 centners. The yields were on an average about 7*28 centner per morgen.

According to an official report upon mines, foundries, and salines, it appears there were produced in the Zollverein in the year 1865, from the coal pits, 388,179,637 centners of coals, 124,078,356 cent- ners of brown coal (Bovey), 52,400,407 centners of iron ore, 703,650 centners of gold and silver ore, 3,398,944 centners of lead ore, 3,122,785 centners of copper ore, 6,265,983 centners of zinc ore, besides other products, making a total of 578,966,407 centners, of which Prussia produced 463,846,947 centners. The total amount of works was 4,788, of which there were in Prussia 2,313.