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 REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

287

Expenditure

18

17

is drachmas

OS

drachmas

&

Public debt.

6,091.190

217,543

7,096,370

253,442

Civil list ....

1,125,000

40,178

1,125,000

10,178

Legislative chamber.

371,000

13,250

381,874

13,638

Foreign office.

S42,17.3

30,078

834,028

29,787 ;

Ministry of justiet.

2,483,841

88,708

2,441,022

87,179

Ministry of interior.

3,909,556

139,627

3. .311, 384

125,407

Ministry of religion and

education

1.49.'). 183

53,400

1,653,446

•59,052

' Ministry of war

8,031.282

286,831

8,454,250

301,936

Ministry of marine.

1,629,150

.58,184

2,053,300

73,333

Ministry of finance.

( Jost of administration and

1,065,085

38,039

1,132,398

40,443

supervision. .

2,302,008

82,214

2.289,0.31

SI. 7-52

Miscellaneous expenditure

Total.

1,338,000

17,786

2,018,000

72,071

30,683,470

1,095,838

32,990,123

1,178,218

The above estimates represent the so-called ordinary expenditure, to which were added in each year supplementary credits. As finally voted by the chamber, the expenditure for the year 1868 stood as follows : —

Ordinary expenditure

Supplementary .. Extraordinary ..

Drachmas 32,! .12:;

1,158.000 11,200.000

= 1.178,218

41,357

400.000

4.5,348,123 1,619,575

This expenditure was to be met by a revenue estimated at 33,508,000 drachmas, or 1.100,714/., while the deficit of 11,840,123 drachmas, or 422,861/., was to lie covered by loans.

The actual expenditure of the kingdom for many years is believed to have been much larger than that shown in theVndget estimates; but no official returns giving the real income and expenses of the government have been published since the year 1859. T< > the budget of Greece there was added, for the first time, that oi' the Ionian Islands, in 1865. According to the Government estimates, the islands were to contribute 3,648/Jll drachmas, or 100,318/., to the revenue of the kingdom, with an expenditure, however, of nearly twice the amount. But these estimates were avowedly conjectural, and in the absence of any returns regarding the actual revenue and expenditure, there is no basis for judging whether the Ionian Islands will offer in the future a source of additional revenue or of increased expenditure to Greece.