ARGENTINE REPUBLIC. 



The surplus observed on comparing the totals 



o d-T'rn Qrt 

 of these two tables is f 770,d8b. 



Sorae of the more important items ol expen- 

 diture in the several departments of the Grov- 

 ernment according to the estimate already re- 

 iVrred to, are exhibited in the subjoined table : 



young nations to have the largest possible number of 

 inhabitants educated, while it is perhaps the noblest 

 manner of returning to the people what they have con- 

 tributed to thc Government. Finally comes the Min- 

 istry of War and the Navy with $82,720, of which $50,- 

 000, are for the new powder-factory, a medical corps, 

 and Board of Health, the placing in commission of 

 several ships at present lying up, the erection of marine 



INTERIOR. workshops, etc. The taxes all remain as they were in 



President of the Republic (salary, and expenses 1880, except some slight modification in the manner of 



of his household) ............................. $46,920 collecting them. 



poS 8 Offl U ce e 'aDd'te'iegraphs "I.'.'.'.'!""".'.'!!!"! 602J60 The financial condition of the Argentine 



immiirnition ................................... 24 M 3 o Republic is, on the whole, and despite of many 



C ^. e *^ a :::::::::.::: 8W$H> unfavorable circumstances, chief among which 



are the devastating revolutions which attend 



Arm $4431963 electoral campaigns, extremely favorable, and 



Na/......!!i!... "".'.".".....'."' '640,72 the country's credit is uniformly maintained 



JUSTICE ETC abroad, thanks to the unexceptional regularity 



Justlce ^ ..... ' ........... $168,863 observed in the service of the national debt. 



Public instruction .'.'.'.".!!."!.'.". ................ 665,656 Between the years 1863 and 1870 the revenue 



FINANCE. increased 120 per cent., and between 1870 and 



National debt .................................. $8,433,857 1878 a further advance of about 4 per cent. 



Collection of revenue ........................... 718,440 wa8 a p paren t. The returns for 1879 now show 



The customs receipts for each month of the an increase of rather less then 5 per cent, as 



year 1879, as given in the following table, compared with those for 1878; * but this is al- 



though in general but little below the standard tributed in part to the enhanced import tax on 



for the most favorable years, do not aggregate wool, for which Minister Plaza obtained per- 



as high as the estimated receipts for 1879-'80, mission from Congress in 1878. Notwith- 



shown in the foregoing table of the revenue : standing that it is an express violation of the 



January ............................ $1,199,487 25 Constitution to impose any export duties on 



February .................... . ...... ?' S'215 9? native products, yet the tax on wool was raised 



April : : : : :::::. ::::::::::::::::::::: iS;??!! 8 to 6 p er cent - ad iorem, a state of things re- 



May ............................... i',4i4]375 24 garded as prejudicial to the interests of the 



iSeisI republic, since it would be impossible for 



August.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'.'. JJJ^......... ...... '929^99722 Buenos Ayres, shackled with such an impost, 



September .......................... 8 88,809 & ^o compete with Australia, which exports its 



N c ovem r beV. :::::::::::::::::::::::: m^ll wool free of duty. Dr. piaza's policy, how- 



December .......................... 4,196,883 71 ever, was cordially supported by the people of 



Total.. _ $13 150 823 50 Buenos Ayres. As the inhabitants of the city 



already paid forty-five dollars per capita to the 



Dr Avellaneda, m his message to Congress, nationa i Government, twenty dollars to the 



immediately before surrendering the executive p rovinc i a i government, and about ten dollars to 



power to his successor, made the following the Municipal Council, it was deemed wise and 



statement concerning the budget: "more patriotic" that any new taxes should 



The total expenditure for the year 1881 is estimated be laid on the estancieros (farmers, etc., occu- 



at $20,207,851, as follows : Interior, $3,452,995.08; For- ^ v \ n ~ t i, A <,* ,.,;<> i n 



eign Affairs, $140,840 ; Finance, $9,455,322.57 ; Justice, P > l l]f the es ncia j m 



ete., $1,499,452 ; War and the Navy (army, $4,740,- incidence of taxation was as follows : 

 610; navy, $917,622=-) $5,658,232; and showing an v . TTrW AT 



increase of $1 724,337 over the present year (1880) as - ,_ Avre , fdt _f A< 



foiiowB: Wo,:, $870,114; Foreign Af&rs, $24 GOO ; iSsAvTel nSmsiricts): 



* mancc, $42,252 ; Justice, etc., $202,484 ; War and the Thirteen remaining provinces of the republic. . . 2,100.000 



Navy (army, $302,647 ; navy, $279,840 ) $582,487. 



This increase is in a great measure merely nominal, $15,500,000 



as the whole amount appropriated is rarely spent, al- REVENUE OF BUENOS AYRES. 



though it well might be in the present instance, and City ........................................... $3,250,000 



particularly in the branches for which the increase is Rural districts ............................... 1,500,000 



intended. A few words will explain this : Of the $870,- TT^nnnn 



114 asked for the Interior, $650,000 are for the exten- <you,uw 



i the Central North and Andine Railways, and Total $20250000 



may be looked upon as the earnings of said lines. Con- 

 sequently, the real increase is only $220,114, which will Hence, the taxes paid by the Argentine peo- 



ily devoted to immigration and colonization, and pie were as follows : 



sul -i( lizing the municipal bodies to be created for those - _ 



purposes ; the founding of new colonies in Patagonia : Rat- n er 



the improvement of roads, bridges, and public build- DIVISIONS. Taxes. cap . 



i 1 1 n ; the canalization of the port of Santa F4 ; the re- ___ 



pairing of the dredging-machinery, and other urgent Buenos Ayres (city) ............ ..... $11,850,000 $55.00 



public items which reach in the aggregate $85 848 in Buenos Ayres (rural districts) ........ 6,300,000 15.00 



the estimates of the other ministerial departments. The rteen remaining provinces ........ 2,100,000 



increase for Public Instruction is comparatively insig- m ntol on o nnn ~m m 



nificant, if the appropriations made in former years for . Total ........................... 20,250,000 



this branch arc considered, and how important it is for * See "Annual Cyclopedia" for 1879, p. 88. 



