VENEZUELA. 



861 



EXPENDITURE. 



General administration $2.400,000 



Home debt 432,000 



Foreign debt 523,000 



Foreign claims 208,000 



Public instruction 646,138 



Publicworks 834,862 



Total $4,448,000 



Of the amount representing the custom- 

 house yield in the table of the revenue, $3,- 

 840,000 was for import duties, and the remain- 

 ing $14,000 for export duties. 



The national debt consists of a foreign debt 

 amounting, on June 30, 1879, to $54,347,818, 

 including interest past due ; and a home debt 

 of $12,962,172, of which $7,075,208 formed the 

 consolidated five per cents. In 1872 the Gov- 

 ernment paid interest on its loans, but sus- 

 pended payment in September, 1878, and re- 

 sumed in March, 1879. 



The following table shows the nature and 

 value of the imports, and the amount of duties 

 collected thereon, for the six months ending 

 December 31, 1877, cotton textile fabrics con- 

 stituting the heaviest item : 



The sources of the foregoing imports were as 

 follows: 



The total value of the imports (one half of 

 which were breadstuffs and provisions) from 

 the United States for the year ending June 30, 

 1876, was $2,587,578, the duties upon which 

 amounted to $941,235. 



The trade between Venezuelan ports and the 

 port of New York, for the year ending June 30, 

 1879, was as set forth in the following sched- 

 ules: 



EXPORTS TO NEW YORK. 



IMPORTS FROM NEW YORK. 



Venezuela has, besides, a certain trade with 

 Philadelphia, and from Southern ports of the 

 United States receives considerable quantities 

 of lumber yellow-pine and cypress. 



The Venezuelan exports for the six months 

 ending December 31, 1877, were as shown in 

 the following table : 



COMMODITIES. Valo. 



Coffee $2,902,268 



Gold, uncoined 888.568 



Cacao 669.841 



Goat-skins 147.753 



HMes 117.643 



Metals 60,668 



Cotton 60,878 



Tobacco 83,401 



(Juinla 84,666 



Dr.T-sklnS -I-"" 



Dye-woods 16,686 



Indigo 11.854 



Dlvidivi 



Woods, various ~.i>-7 



Miscellaneous lSg.1'3 



ToUl $6,002,516 



The destinations and respective values of the 

 foregoing exports were as follows : 



