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SWITZERLAND.

Cantons

Year

Revenue

Expenditure

Debt

Franca

Francs

Francs

Bern ....

1867

5,663,681

6,182,055

68,620,474

Zurich ....

1867

3,382,000

3,537,400

—

Vaud (Waadt).

1866

3,550,111

3,427,997

3,219.592

Aargau

1867

2,016,685

2,581,685

1,000,000

St. Gall

1866

1.635,713

1,668,415

9,093,700

Luzern

1867

966,048

1,174,654

1,871,220

Tessin (Ticino).

1866

1,447,983

1,610,658

6,341,916

Fribourg

1865

4,273,043

4,602,900

41,091,320

Graubiiuden (Grisons).

1866

1,008,960

997,245

4,725,598

Wallis (Valais).

1S67

680,230

638,077

2,668.819

Thurgau

1867

978,755

968,267

1,042,343

Basel — Town

1865

1,205,988

1,529,373

5,987,885

„ Country.

1867

550,633

530,178

824,000

Geneve (Genf)

1866

3,430,440

3,565,609

19,993,000

Neuchatel (Neuenburg)

1866

1,249,194

1,253,095

3,621,000.

Solotliurn (Soleure)

1866

1,143,342

1,229,376

1,584,942

Appenzel — Interior

1866

183,620

180,475

—

„ Exterior

1866

252,837

252,837

38,000

Glarus ....

1867

435,145

436,708

3,311,525

Schaffhausen

1868

334,000

334,000

—

Schwyz

1866

283,927

307,751

821,349

Unterwald — Upper

1866

94,064

99,081

31,561

„ Lower

1866

112,275

90,372

71,147

Uri.

1865

248,114

251,777

810,276

Zug. . ..

Total.

1866

155,421

126,425

187,240


 * 35,330,209

37,707,410

132,020,226

£1,413,208

1,508,296

5,280,809

The chief income of the cantonal administrations is derived from a single direct tax on income, amounting, in most cantons, to li per cent, on every 1,000 francs property. In some cantons the local revenue is raised, in part, by the sale of excise licenses. In Bern they form one-fifth of the total receipts ; in Luzern, one-seventh ; in Uri, one-tenth ; in Upper Unterwald, one-eighth ; in Solothurn, one- sixth ; and in the canton of Tessin one-fourteenth of the total revenue.

Army.

The thirteenth article of the Constitution of September 12, 1848, forbids the maintenance of a standing army within the limits of the Confederation. To provide for the defence of the country, every citizen has to bear arms, in the management of which the children are instructed at school, from the age of eight, passing through annual exercises and reviews. Such military instruction is volun-