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AUSTRIA.

The only source of revenue directly apportioned to meet the expenditure for the common affairs of the Empire is that derived from the customs, calculated to produce 7,927,000 florins in the year 1869. Thus the budget estimates of the year summed up : —

Estimated Kevenue

„ Expenditure ....

Deficit.

Florins

£

7,927,000 89,253,018

792,700 8,925,301

81,326,018

8,132,601

The actual receipts of the year 1869 were reported to the Delega- tions, in the session of 1870, as having been below, and the expen- diture above the estimates.

The budget estimates for 1870 fixed the expenditure for the com- mon affairs of the Empire at 83,249,695 florins, or 8,324,969/., of which amount 24,974,908 florins, or 2,497,490/. was allotted to Hungary. The estimated revenue from customs for the year 1870 was 10,056,000 florins, or 1,005,600/.

Budget for Cisleithan Austria. The financial estimates for 1869, approved by the Reichsrath, were calculated upon a total revenue of 296,284, 176 florins, or 29,628,417/., for the year, and a total expenditure of 299,326,671 florins, or 29,932,667/., leaving a deficit of 3,042,495 florins, or 304,249/. The details of the estimated gross revenue for the year 1869 were as follows: —

Direct taxes

Florins

£

75,884,001

7,588,400

43,184,076

4,318,407

Customs' duties .....

12.500,000

1,250,000

Salt monopoly .....

19,562.327

1,956,232

Tobacco monopoly .....

43,158,066

4,315,806

11,747,230

1,174,723

Judicial fees ......

19,397.075

1,939,707

State lottery ......

14,117,681

1,411,768

Tolls

2,603,688

260,368

State domains

5,467,701

546,770

Mines and mint .....

9,395,918

939,591

Post and telegraphs ....

12,212,500

1,221,250

Sale of State property ....

3,000,000

300,000

Funds of the Government ' Central Bank '

4,200,000

420,000

Funds of the public debt commission

5,700,000

570,000

Miscellaneous receipts ....

4,153.913

415,391

Surplus of former loans .... Total estimated revenue of 1869.

10,000,000

1,000,000

296,284,176

29,628,417 1