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MEXICO. 



Aguas Calientes Scflor 



Cam peachy ' 



Chiapas 



Chihuahua 



Coahuila 



Colima 



Durango 



Guanajuato. 



Guerrero 



Hidalgo 



Jalisco 



Mexico 



^Michoacan 



* Morelos 



Nuevo Leon 



Oajaca 



Puebla 



Queretaro 



San Luis Potosi 



Sinaloa 



Sonora 



Tabasco 



Tamaulipas 



TJaxcala 



Vera Cruz 



Yucatan 



Zacatecas 



Federal District 



Lower California Ter. 



Don F. G. Hornedo. 



" M. Castillo. 



" S. Escobar. 



" A. Trias. 



" H. Charles. 



" D. Lope. 



" J. M. Flores. 



" F. Mena. 



" K. Cuellar. 



" N. Cravioto. 



" J. M. Camarena. 



" Mirafuentes. 



" B. Patiiio. 



" G. Garcia. 



" 0. Pacheco. 



" H. Meigneiro. 



" I. J. C. Bonilla. 



" A. Gayon. 



" C. Diaz Gutierrez. 



" J. Ramirez. 



" M. V. Mai-iscal. 



" S. Sarlat. 



" J. Gojon. 



" Lira y Ortega. 



" Mier y Teran. 



" M. Ancona. 



" T. G deCadena. 



" L. O. Curriel. 



" F. Miranda y Castro. 



The Mexican Minister Plenipotentiary to 

 the United States is Sr. Don M. de Zamacona; 

 the United States Minister Plenipotentiary to 

 Mexico is the Hon. John W. Foster, and the 

 United States Consul-General at the capital 

 is Mr. Lennox. 



The army comprises 21,136 men and 1,251 

 officers, as follows : Foot (20 battalions), 14,642 

 men and 765 officers ; horse (10 corps), 4,843 

 men and 297 officers ; artillery (4 brigades of 

 4 batteries each), 1,315 men and 148 officers ; 

 coast-guard, 71 men and 22 officers ; and inva- 

 lids, 265 men and 19 officers. 



The navy comprises four gunboats. 



The national revenue for the fiscal year end- 

 ing June 30, 1878, and the sources from which 

 it was derived, were as shown in the annexed 

 table : 



REVENUE. 

 Custom-house (maritime and frontier) : 



Import duties $10,556.844 



Export duties 940,581 



$11,497,425 



Custom-house of the city of Mexico, etc 



Stamped paper , 



Direct taxation 



Post-Office 



Mint 



Public instruction (old fund) 



Arrears , 



National property , 



Lottery 



Sundries}. . . 



1,109,930 



1,800,000 



525,150 



445,156 



842,014 



86,988 



82,508 



1,711 



94.762 



243,163 



Total ................................... $16,128,807 



The following table exhibits the estimated 

 amount and distribution of the expenditure for 

 the same year : 



EXPENDITURE. 



Legislative .................................... $2,051,202 



Executive ........... 43 172 



Judicial .............. ...'.....'.',.".".' ." .' .' ." .' .' .' .' .' .' .' 831,823 



Ministry of Foroign Affairs ..................... 198,960 



of the Interior ........................ 2 474,801 



of Justice and Public Instruction ...... 1,095,588 



of Public Works ................. 2749280 



Total $22,103,046 



The national debt, of which no official re- 

 turns have been published since 1865, was esti- 



mated by a British writer to amount to $395,- 

 500,000. "In dispatches which I have recent- 

 ly sent to the Department of State," writes 

 Minister Foster in 1878, " I have shown that 

 Mexico owes in Europe a bonded and treaty 

 debt, with accrued interest, of say $125,000,- 

 000, and in the United States of $2,700,000. 

 For the payment of the European debts the 

 Government has already pledged the entire 

 available customs receipts of its ports ; and it 

 has subsequently pledged 60 per cent, of the 

 same customs to secure the American debt. It 

 is true, this (the Mexican) Government claims 

 that it is released from the European pledge 

 by the action of England, France, and Spain 

 in 1861-'62, though these nations do not con- 

 cede that claim ; and there is no question but 

 that the pledge to secure the American debt is 

 a binding obligation." The second annual 

 installment of the Mexican indemnity to the 

 United States was paid with no less punc- 

 tuality in 1878 than was the first in the pre- 

 ceding year. 



Concerning the flourishing public-school sys- 

 tem of the Mexican Republic, we would refer 

 to the comprehensive details given in the 

 " Annual Cyclopedia" for 1876. 



In the absence of adequate and reliable sta- 

 tistics of the foreign commerce of Mexico, it 

 may here be mentioned that the exports, as 

 calculated from custom-house returns, are of a 

 mean annual value of $30,000,000, and the 

 imports $27,000,000. But such is the preva- 

 lence of systematic smuggling that these re- 

 turns can never be regarded as correct ; in- 

 deed, the whole of the figures therein repre- 

 senting the imports and those standing for 

 bullion in the exports may safely be doubled. 

 Among the commodities most extensively ex- 

 ported are silver and gold coin, silver and 

 copper ore, cochineal, indigo, and other dye- 

 stuffs, coffee, vanilla beans, hides, timber, 

 cabinet-wood, Sisal hemp (henequeri), ixtle, 

 etc. ; and the chief articles among the imports 

 are linen, cotton, woolen, and silk fabrics, iron 

 wrought and un wrought, machinery, hard- 

 ware, provisions, etc. Considerably more 

 than one third of the exports are shipped di- 

 rectly to Great Britain, either for consumption 

 there or for distribution among other European 

 markets; and by far the largest share of the 

 imports are from England. The United States 

 and France figure each for about one sixth of 

 the imports, Germany for one fifteenth, Spain 

 and the Spanish West Indies (mainly Cuba) for 

 one tenth, etc. Both exports and imports have 

 sensibly diminished in importance in the last 

 two years, as may be observed by comparing 

 the amount of duties collected in either of 

 them and in any of the years immediately pre- 

 ceding. For instance, the total yield of the 

 custom-houses of the republic in 1878 amount- 

 ed to but $12,606,355, against $17,303,945 in 

 1870, notwithstanding, no reduction of the 

 tariff occurred in the interval. In the single 

 State of Yucatan the trade with the United 



