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 DEFENCE — PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

1129

Revenue

Dollars

Expenditure

Dollars

Customs ....

10,061,487

Legislature ....

341,114

Property tax

1,831,689

Presidency ....

67,242

Trade licences

890,650

Ministry Foreign Affairs.

131,968

Factorj' taxes

470,595

,, Government

2,365,086

Tobacco tax

463,936

,, Finance

961,160 '■

Instruction receipts

427,457

,, Foments

1,124,672

Stamped paper.

369,668

,, War and Marine.

1,918,031 !

Bank protits

350,000

Public Debt

5,640,743 1

Post and telegraph

260,000

Railway guarantees.

945,636

Other receipts

848,064

Pensions ....

•1,416,407

Various .... Total ....

887,173

Total.

15,973,546

15,799,231 !

The municipality of Montevideo has its own Budget, and is not included in these estimates. The amount of the public debt on December 31, 1897. is officially stated as follows :

Dollars

External 100,490,512

International 4,327,575

Internal 15,947,010

Total 120,765,097

In October, 1898, the debt was increased by 7,500,000 dollars, bringing the total up to 128,265,097 dollars.

According to the Report of the Committee of the Council of Foreign Bond- holders, the amount of the foreign debt outstanding in the middle of 1898 was 21,380,960^.

The total value of the real property of the Republic in 1896 was 280,945,721 dollars. Of this the department of Montevideo is credited with 128,809,060 dollars, the next richest provinces being Paysandu, Soriano, and Salto with 14,831,178 and 12,872,480 dollars respectively.

Defence.

The permanent army of Uruguay is officially reported to consist of 233 officers and 3,222 men, including 4 battalions of infantry, 4 regiments of cavalry, 1 of artillery. The soldiers are armed with Remington rifles, and there are 67 pieces of artillery. There is besides an armed police force of 3,200 men. The national guard numbers about 20,000. In recent years there has been an excessive expenditure for the maintenance of an increased military force. Uruguay has three gunboats and one small steamer, with a complement of about 184 officers and men.

Production and Industry.

The rearing of cattle and sheep is the chief industry of Uruguay. The pastoral establishments in 1896, according to declarations made for fiscal pur- poses, contained 5,881,402 head of cattle, 392,246 horses, 15,589 mules, and 16,397,484 sheep. The total value of the flocks and herds in Uruguay is estimated at 73,038,000 dollars. In Uruguay and Montevideo in 1896, 703,900 ; in 1897, 670,900 head of cattle were slaughtered. In 1897 the wool