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ITALY. 



REPORTER OP SUPREME COURT. 



Runnell*. Republican 131,297 



Klliott. Fusion 

 Rutherford, Democrat 



The Legislature of the State is divided as 

 follows : 



ITALY, a kingdom of southern Europe. 

 King in 1878, Humbert I., born March 14, 1844, 

 who succeeded his father, Victor Emanuel II., 

 January 9, 1878. He married, April 22, 1868, 

 Margaretha, daughter of Prince Ferdinand of 

 Savoy, Duke of Genoa. Heir apparent, Victor 

 Emanuel, Prince of Naples, born November 11, 

 1869. 



The following table gives the area of the 

 larger territorial divisions (compartimenti\ 

 with the population, male and female, of each, 

 according to the census of 1871, and the total 

 population at the close of 1876, according to 

 an official calculation : 



The receipts in the budget for 1878 were as 

 follows : 



Lire* 



1 . Income from Government property 28,811,425 



i. Direct taxes. 



Ground tax 125,725,401 



Building tax 55,600,000 



Duty on grinding 81,000,000 



Other taxes 184,922,405 



8. Indirect taxes : 



.................. 56,000,000 



Stamp tax .................... 89,000,000 



Customs .................... 116000,000 



Toweco and salt monopoly. . . 181,194,891 



Others ....................... 187,469,05T 



4. Lottery ............... 



6. Postal department, state railroads,' and' te'le'- 



graphs 

 . Returns of payment 



447,247,806 



529,663,948 

 72,100,000 



90,083,000 

 16,246,692 



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ToUl ordinary revenue 1,188,540,871 



as tie French franc, 



The extraordinary receipts amounted to 16,- 

 526,245 lire, and special revenue from various 

 sources to 220,517,349 lire, making the total 

 revenue 1,425,583,965 lire. 



The expenditures were as follows: 



The aggregate of the ordinary and extraor- 

 dinary expenditures amounted to 1,412,683,266 

 lire, leaving a surplus of 12,900,699 lire. 



The total debt of the kingdom in 1875 

 amounted to a nominal capital of 9,883,589,226 

 lire. The interest of the national debt and its 

 management are summarized under the head- 

 ing of Ministry of Finance. Included in this 

 branch of expenditure is the annual dotation 

 of the Pope, amounting to 3,225,000 lire. Leo 

 XIII., like Pius IX., continues to refuse the ac- 

 ceptance of this allowance. 



The value of the different articles of import 

 and export in 1877 was as follows, the transit 

 trade being included in both the imports and 

 exports : 



The movement of the special foreign trade, 

 from 1871 to 1877, was as follows: 



