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 Revenue.

Expenditure.

Dollars

Dollars

Customs.

21,704,893

Interest on Public Debt

10.516,758

Excise

7,871,563

Charges for debt.

152,880

Lands

975,792

Sinking Fund

2,359,968

Public Works. . \

7,401,274

Subsidies to Provinces.

4,237,372

Post Office. . j

Legislation and Civil

Fees, Fines, and Forfei-

Government.

2,129,251

tures (including Sei-

Public Works.

1,701,313

zures).

163,393

Penitentiaries. ,

386,395

Militia, including Mili-

Administration of Justice

7(55,608

tary College.

36,916

Geological Survey, &c.

57,000

Weights and Measures

44,014

Arts, Agriculture, and

Premium, Discount, and

Statistics.

245,231

Exchange

191,560

Ocean and River Steam

Interest on Investments

1,513,454

Service & Mail Subsidies

730,326

Fisheries.

106,179

Militia and Defence

1,514,472

Penitentiaries.

76,588

Mounted Police N.W.T.

865,416

Superannuation

45,643

Pensions, &c.

96,187

Dominion Steamers and

Lighthouses, &c.

474,217

Lighthouse and Coast

Fisheries.

441,725

Service

11,630

Indians (Leg. Grants).

952,584

Mariners' Fund

54,553

Immigration. &c.

261,195

Steamboat Inspection

31,525

Charges on Revenue, &c.

10,407,834

Various.

326,661

Gov. of N. W. Ter. .

347,687

40,555,238

Miscellaneous Total

189,107

Total.

38,832,526

The public debt of the Dominion, incurred chiefly on account of public works, and the interest of which forms the largest branch of the expenditure, was as follows on July 1, 1898 : —

Dollars

Without Interest 22,921,520

At 2^ per cent. ,, ...... 9,733,333

„3' ,, „ 106,085,014

„ 34 „ „ : 27,897,548

,, 4 ,,, 143,709,497

,,5- ,, ,, 26,804,687

„6 „ „ 1,224,384

Total Debt

338,375,984

There arc assets which make the net debt 263,956,399 dollars, following shows the gross and net debts in five years : —

The

Gross

Net

Dollars.

Dollars

1894

308,348,024

246,183.029

1895

318,048,755

253,074,927

1896

325,717,537

258,497,433

1897

332,530,131

261,538,596

1898

338,375,984

263,956,399

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