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The budget of the German Empire for 1878- 

 '79, as declared by the law of April 29, 1878, es- 

 timates revenue and expenditure each at 536,- 

 496,800 marks (1 mark = 23.8 cents). The rev- 

 enue was derived from the following sources : 



Marks. 



1. Customs and excises of consumption 250,326.840 



2. Stamp-duty for bills of exchange 6,653,100 



8. Administration of postal affairs and tele- 



graphs 15,288,408 



4. Administration of railroads 11 ,356,000 



5. Imperial Bank, and other receipts 2,010,000 



6. Receipts of various descriptions 7,495,522 



7. From the imperial funds for invalids 82,053,152 



8 Surplus of former years 84,663 



9. Profits from the coining of imperial money. . 100,000 



10. Interest of invested capitals 7,324,208 



11. Extraordinary receipts 116,535,056 



12. Matricular contributions 87,145,510 



13. Administration of the imperial printing-office 174,330 



Total 536,496,800 



The mntricular contributions were divided 

 among the particular states as follows : 



STATES. 



Prussia 



Bavaria 



Saxony 



Wurtemberg 



Baden 



Hesse 



Mecklenburg-Schwerin 



Baxe- Weimar 



Mecklenburg-Strelitz 



Oldenburg 



Brunswick 



Saxe-Meiningen 



Saxe-Altenburg 



Baxe-Coburg-Gotha 



Anhalt 



Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 



Sch warzburg- Sondershausen 



"Waldeck 



Eeuss (elder branch) 



Eeuss (younger branch) 



Schaumburg-Lippe 



Lippe 



Bremen , 



Hamburg 



Alsace-Lorraine 



Marks. 

 41.494,609 

 19,682,751 

 4 575,727 

 6,806,586 

 4,836,566 

 1,422,501 

 812,032 

 449,547 

 138,518 

 488,098 

 510,308 

 303,191 

 228,422 

 290,512 

 836,401 

 116,855 

 99,819 

 78,011 

 73,746 

 142,181 

 51,222 

 172.868 

 91,896 

 244,735 

 644,054 

 8,060,410 



Total. 



The regular expenditures of the empire 

 itimated as follows : 



87,145,516 



. were 



estimate 



Marks. 



1. Chancellor of the empire 104,980 



2. Chancery of the empire 4,259,253 



8. Imperial Diet 322,000 



4. Foreign Office 6,104,655 



5. Administration of the imperial army 322,518,283 



6. Administration of the navy 24,110,520 



7. Interest of the debt of the empire 6,781,500 



8. Chamber of Accounts 450.510 



9. Imperial Chancery for Alsace-Lorraine 171,760 



10. Railroad Office of the empire 272,750 



11. General pension funds 17,553,205 



12. Empire invalid funds 82,053,157 



13. Administration of justice 806.182 



Total 415,508,755 



The extraordinary expenditures are thus es- 

 timated : 



Marki. 



1. Chancellor of the empire 8,000 



2. Chancery of the empire 2,527,380 



3. ImperialDiet 80,000 



4. Foreign Office 527,000 



5. Postal administration, and administration of 



telegraphs 13,299,345 



6. Army of the empire 27,878,540 



7. Administration of the navy 84,580,165 



8. Chamber of Accounts 10,000 



9. Railroads of the empire 10,102,340 



10. Mint 22,700,000 



11. Expenditures arising from the war with 



France 9,995,825 



12. Administration of justice 85,000 



Total 120,988,045 



The public debt of the German Empire con- 

 sists of two loans, one of 77,731,321 marks, 

 authorized by the law of June 14, 1877, and 

 one of 97,484,865 marks, authorized by the 

 law of June 14, 1878. There is also a floating 

 debt consisting of Treasury notes issued for 

 short periods only. In accordance with the 

 law of April 20, 1874, the Imperial Govern- 

 ment has issued paper money (ReicJiscassen- 

 scheine) to the amount of 120,000,000 marks, 

 which has been distributed among the several 

 states in proportion to their population on De- 

 cember 31, 1871. 



The budgets and public debt of the several 

 states in 1878 were as follows (in marks) : 



