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COLOMBIA. 



August 31, 1875, with the sources from which 



it was derived, is shown in the annexed table : 



REVENUE. 



Customs $1,976,918 



Salt monopoly 728.721 



Panama Kailway 250,000 



Post-Office 550,000 



Telegraphs 19,280 



Mint.... 5,308 



National property 21,675 



Church property 135,000 



Sundries. 698,000 



Total $4,379,897 



The total expenditure, in the same fiscal 

 year, was as follows : 



EXPENDITURE. 



Ministry of Interior, etc $208,400 



Finance 214,818 



" War and Marine 288,000 



National debt 1,259,980 



Public Works 170,108 



Foreign Affairs 57,000 



Treasury 75,000 



Public Instruction 121,000 



Pensions 44,000 



Post-Offlce 216,000 



Total $2,654,801 



The surplus resulting from the comparison 

 of the totals of the revenue and expenditure 

 amounts to $1,725,596. 



The largest single item of expenditure, in 

 the fiscal year 1874-'75 (see table immediately 

 preceding), was that made on account of the 

 national debt, thus showing that Colombia is 

 now prompt in meeting her engagements. 



The total amount of the national debt, in 

 1875, was $14,872,174, of which $9,865,500 

 formed the foreign branch. 



The total value of the exports for the year 

 1874-'75 was $9,984,386, comprising the fol- 

 lowing commodities: 



ports of the republic were as follows in the 

 year 1874-'75 : 



ENTERED. 



The value of Colombian exports to Great 

 Britain, in 1874, was $4.978,000, or more than 

 one-half of the total value of the exports to 

 all countries. 



The total value of the imports in 1874-'75 

 was $14,844,856; that of the imports from 

 Great Britain, $2,964,976 ; and that of the im- 

 ports from the United States, $767,472. 



The coasting-trade for the year above re- 

 ferred to amounted to $245,089. 



The shipping movements at the various 



As was demonstrated in the article " Colom- 

 bia," in the ANNUAL CYCLOPAEDIA for 1874, 

 there now exists a regularly-organized system 

 of public instruction in that republic. The 

 amount appropriated for that depai'tment, in 

 the year 1874-'75, was but $121,000, which the 

 director-general declares to be altogether inad- 

 equate to cover the unavoidable outlays. The 

 sum by him estimated as requisite for the year 

 1876-'77 was $229,504. As will be shown in 

 the following tables, each State appropriates a 

 certain amount of funds for the maintenance 

 of its own public schools. 



The following is an official table of details, 

 relative to primary instruction in Colombia, in 

 1875: 



