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GEKMANY. 



In all, twenty universities, of which nine are 

 in Prussia, three in Bavaria, two in Baden, one 

 each in Wurtemberg, Hesse, Saxony, Saxe- 

 Weimar, Mecklenburg, and Alsace-Lorraine. 

 Sometimes the Academy of Mtlnster, which 

 contains the two faculties of Catholic theol- 

 ogy and philosophy, is also counted among the 



German universities. It had, in 1876, 29 pro- 

 fessors and 436 students. At the following 

 universities, outside of the German Empire, 

 the German language is exclusively or pre- 

 dominantly used, and in the province of lit- 

 erature they may therefore be counted as Ger- 

 man universities : 



The budget of the German Empire for 1876, 

 as declared by law of December 25, 1875, 

 estimates revenue and expenditure each at 

 474,256,998 marks (1 mark = 23.8 cents). 

 The revenue was derived from the following 

 sources : 



Marks. 



1. Customs and excises of consumption 242,629,170 



2. Stamp-duty for bills of exchange 6,990.450 



8. Administration of postal affairs and telegraphs. 10,562.236 



4. Administration of railroads 9,473,000 



5. Imperial Bank, and other receipts 1,810,000 



6. Receipts of various descriptions 1,865,1 14 



7. From the imperial funds for invalids 28,828,611 



8. Surplus of the years 1874 and 1875 84,365,3<>6 



9. Profits from the coining of imperial money. . 10,200,000 



10. Interest of Invested capitals 10,658,000 



11 . Extraordinary receipts 45,495,836 



12. Matricular contributions 71,876,215 



Total 474,256,998 



The matricular contributions were divided 

 among the particular states as follows : 



STATES. Marks. 



Prussia 81,730,696 



Lauenburg 72.798 



Bavaria 16,078,924 



Saxony 8,676,779 



"Wurtemberg 5,987,108 



Baden 4,647,435 



Hesse 1,162,731 



Mecklenburg-Schwerin 758,196 



Saxe-Weimar 401,832 



Mecklenburg-Strelitz 132^864 



Oldenburg 438,256 



Brunswick 485,145 



Saxe-Meiningen 266,846 



Saxe-Altenburg 204,711 



Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 245,896 



Anhalt 805,354 



Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 104,744 



Schwarzburg-Sondershausen 95'904 



Waldeck 74,077 



Reuss, older branch 65468 



Reuss, younger branch 186^145 



Schaurnburg-Lippe 46,725 



Lippe 141,319 



Liibeck 93,058 



Bremen 239,035 



Hamburg 711,815 



Alsace-Lorraine 8,074,109 



Total 474,256,998 



The common expenditure of the empire is de- 

 frayed, according to Article 70 of the Constitu- 

 tion, from the revenues arising from customs, 

 certain branches of excise, and the profits of 

 the posts and telegraphs. The regular expendi- 

 tures of the empire were estimated as follows : 



Marks. 



1. Chancery of the empire 4,083,660 



2. Imperial Diet 818,150 



8. Foreign Office 5,560.255 



4. Administration of the Imperial Army 216,205,738 



5. Administration of the Navy 21,06s.481 



6. Interest of the debt of the empire 2,742,700 



7. Chamber of Accounts 898.46U 



8. Imperial Supreme Court of Trade 853,370 



9. Railroad Office of the Empire 276.490 



10. General Pension Funds 23.403,141 



11. Empire Invalid Funds 28.828,611 



Total 403,245,062 



The extraordinary expenditures are thus es- 

 timated : 



1. Chancery of the empire 



2. Imperial Diet 



8. Foreign Office 



4. Postal administration, and administration of 



telegraphs 



5. Army of the empire 



6. Administration of the Navy 



7. Chamber of Accounts 



8. Railroads of the empire 



9. Mint reform 



10. Manufacture of Empire Bank notes 



Total 71,011,936 



The following table gives the military forces 

 of the empire in time of war : 



I. FIELD ARMY. 



II. EE8EKVE8. 



