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 REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.

443

Branches of Expenditure

Interest and Sinking Fund of National Debt

Expense of General Administration : — National council State

Federal „ Federal chancery Federal tribunal Pensions.

Total

Departments Political Interior

War.

Finance

Trade and customs

Justice and police

Special Administration Army Customs Post. Telegraph. Gunpowder Percussion caps Mint.

Polytechnic school Government stud Military Academy at Thun Laboratory at Thun.

Total

Total

Miscellaneous Expenses

Total Expenditure •!

Francs 709,252

1868

82,032 4,017

60,022

155.522

8,314

25,888

335,795

168,948

1,040,984

19,915

55,795

7,H8

19,309

1,312,069

2,384,347

3,493,869

8,770,428

748,976

537,121

77,681

325,649 170.203 148,651

552,877

6,069

19,572,987 782,919

73,105

5,714

61,000

157,555

6.275

19,701

323,350

185,515

76.3.604

19,917

54.647

4,495

10,607

1,040,785

2.442,011

3,467,702

8,814,716

921,182

575,249

176.156

20.000

318.400

102.178

125,329

1,070,512

17,209,802 ] 18,033,435

6.214

20,343.580 813,743

The public debt of the republic amounted, at the commencement of 1869, to 15,299,481 francs, or 611,979/., as a set-off against which there was a so-called ' federal fortune,' or property belonaino- to the state, valued at 21,904,690 francs, or 876,187/.

The various cantons of Switzerland have, as their own local administrations, so their own budgets, and, in all cases but two, their own debts. The following table gives the revenue, expenditure, and debt of the twenty-two cantons, after the latest returns : —