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The following table gives the main items of the Budget for 1921 : —

Rev

Gold pesos

Pajer pesos

• export dues (65

Customs and bond.

50,000,000

million quintals).

101,075,000

Surcharge of 50 per cent. .

25,000,000

Iodine and borax, export

Dues ou portal packets

2,500,000

due*

1,500,000

Despatch of cases

2,000,000

Consular dues

3,000,000

Stamp tax ....

18,000,000

Treasury reTenue

2,000,000

Posts and telegraphs

12,800,000

Interest on Municipal loana

1,407,000

Tobacco Ux

9,000,000

New tobacco tax

0,000,000

Wine, beer and spirits tax

7,000,000

Property tax

20,000,000

Death duties

2,000,000

New death dnties

1.600,000

Bank tax ....

2,500,000

Drainage contribution

2,000,000

. Insurance companies' tax

1,000,000


 * Rent of land in Tierra del

Fuego ....

1,400,000

Charter of ships

1,000,000

Mint revenue

2,500,000

Drinking water contribu-

tion ....

6,266,900

Arica-La Paz Railway

6,299,000

Treasury reTeuue

Total (including all

7,000,000

Total (including all

items)

110,432,000 •

items)

189,765,900

Particulars as to main items of expenditure are as follows :-

Departments. Paper pesos ; Gold pesos Departments Paper pesos Gold pesos

Interior 73.224.S16

Foreign Relations,

etc. 2,759.933

Justice 12.306,275

Public Instruction 46.414,388 Treasury War.

176,73-2

2,0S5,759

239,560 35,437,212 j 48,648,192 61,909,887 3*6,162

Navy. Industry and

Public Works Railways.

Total (all items)

32,497,738 4,032.045

21.870,265

BS.MS

1,833

281,607,869 49,154,835

On December 31, 1920, the foreign debt amounted to 29,675,080 and the internal debt to 59,794,092 pesos.

On December 31, 1919, the value of the 9,770 national properties was 346.894,889 pesos currency.

Defence.

The Chilian Army is a national militia in which ail able-bodied citizens are obliged to serve. Liability extends from the 18th to the 45th year, inclusive. Recruits are called up in their 20th year, and sre trained for one year. Afterwards they serve for 9 years in the reserve of the active army, after which they belong till the completion of their 45th vear to the second reserve. The latter is organised as a second-line army.

Chile is divided into 4 zones or military districts, each of which

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