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extraordinary, and special revenue, the latter including loans; and he also recognised three sorts of expenditure, viz. ordinary, extraordinary, and supplementary. It was the practice to lay before the Legislative Body in the first instance the budget of ordinary income and ex- penditure ; when this had been voted, the extraordinary budget was submitted to the Chamber, and, finally, the special budget. There were other classifications as regards time, the financial estimates in their first form of presentation being called ' projet de budget,' in their second, ' budget rectifie,' and in their third, ' budget definitif. ' Great discrepancies frequently existed between the statements and figures thus offered in successive stages, leaving much uncertainty as to the actual revenue and expenditure of the state.

The following table gives the details of the official budget estimates for each of the years 1869 and 1870 — the last voted by the Legis- lative Body under the Empire : —

Estimated Revenue

1869

1870

Ordinary Revt n/ue : —

Francs

Francs

Direct taxes .....

329.516,660

332,821,800

Departmental and ccmrmunal taxes

228,245,843

233,789,470

Registration duties and stamps.

433,946,000

456,474,000

Domains and Forests ....

34,240,776

55,401,573

Customs and salt duties

103,623,000

106,954,000

Sugar duties

110,892,000

111,800,000

Wine and spirit duties

234,716,000

243,433,000

Divers indirect taxes.

39,048,000

41,585,000

Tobacco monopoly

247,658,000

246,809.000

Gunpowder ,,

12,732,000

13,214,000

Post office.

86,409,000

89.344,000

Schools and universities

3,664,621

3,749,598

Revenue of Algeria

17,600,200

16,500,000

Produce of various establishments

14,645,600

15,479,007

Miscellaneous state receipts.

32,256,440

55,401,573

Miscellaneous communal receipts. Total of Ordinary Revenue.

44,713,920 1,973,908,000

46,509,440

2,018,766,303

Extraordinary and Special Revenue : —

Produce of loans .....

133,317,150

15,360,000

War indemnity due by Cochin-China.

1,080,000

1,080,000

Profits of re- coinage of 20 and 50 cen-

time pieces .....

1,000,000

250,000

Payment due from the ' Algerian Com-

pany' ......

16,666,666

16,666,666

Miscellaneous receipts .... Totalof Extraordinary and Special Revenue Total Rpyenue.

2,750,000

3,900,000

154,813,816

124,841,311

2,128,721,816

2,143,607,614

£85,148,8*72

£85,744,305