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estimated expenditure is 25,984,239 pesos, of 

 which the principal items are 12,574,485 pesos 

 for the debt, 5,904,084 pesos for the military, 

 4,015,034 pesos for the interior, and 1,056,831 

 pesos for the marine. 



Commerce and Production. The chief 

 products are sugar and tobacco. The import 

 trade for 1892 is estimated at 56,265,315 pesos, 

 of which 18,553,307 pesos represent imports from 

 Spain ; from the United States, 16,245,880 pesos ; 

 from Great Britain, 13,051,384 pesos; from 

 France, 2,250,901 pesos; from Belgium, 1,000,- 

 00 pesos ; from Germany, 669,000 pesos. The 

 total value of the exports "for 1892 is computed 

 at 89,652,514 pesos, of which 84,964,685 pesos 

 represent vegetable, 3.485,924 pesos mineral, and 

 871,625 pesos animal products. The mineral 

 products are iron, manganese, and copper. The 

 export of sugar for the year ending May 31, 1892, 

 was 865,101 tons. The export of raw tobacco 

 increased from 178,000 to 240,000 bales between 

 1889 and 1892, while the number of cigars ex- 

 ported diminished from 250,467,000 to 166,712,- 

 000. The chief imports are jerked beef, rice, 

 and flour. 



There were entered at the port of Havana 

 1,104 vessels, of 1,279,477 tons, during 1892, and 

 #71, of 431,500 tons, at Santiago de Cuba; 

 cleared at Havana, 1,108 vessels, of 1,289,444 tons. 



Communications. The railroads have a total 

 length of about 1,000 miles. There are 2,810 

 miles of telegraphs. 



American Claims. The customhouse of- 

 ficials of Cuba and Puerto Rico have been ad- 

 dicted to imposing unjust fines on the vessels 

 and commerce of the United States. For cler- 

 ical errors in manifests or bills of lading ex- 

 orbitant penalties have been imposed lately, 

 against which the United States Government 

 has put in protests, large fines having sometimes 

 been levied upon cargoes that were entitled to 

 free entry. The Spanish Cortes had under con- 

 sideration a bill to place a duty of 24 per cent, 

 on all imports from the United States that are 

 now admitted free, by way of retaliation for the 

 abrogation of the Cuban reciprocity treaty, but 

 they adjourned in July, 1894, without acting 

 upon the proposed measure. The Government 

 at Washington has offered to conclude a conven- 

 tion with Spain for the disposal by arbitration 

 of outstanding claims. The Mora claim was ex- 

 eepted from the convention, it having been long 

 since adjusted, though the Spanish Cortes had 

 not yet made provision for its payment. This is 

 the claim of Antonio Maximo Mora, a Cuban 



born, who settled in New York in 1853, and be- 

 came a naturalized citizen of the United States 

 in 1869. His estates in Cuba were embargoed, 

 and he was sentenced to death by a court- martial 

 for alleged complicity in the Cuban revolution, in 

 violation of the treaty between the United States 

 and Spain relating to the manner in which citi- 

 zens of one country can be tried or deprived of 

 their property in the other. The United States 

 Government first protested in 1870, and the 

 Spanish Republican Government in 1873 ordered 

 the release of the embargoed estates, and the 

 succeeding Government in 1876 promised to re- 

 store them, but nothing was done, and the prop- 

 erty went to ruin after the Cuban treasury had 

 collected revenues from it amounting to more 

 than $2,000,000. In 1886 the Spanish Govern- 

 ment offered to pay $1,500,000, less than half 

 the sum claimed by Mora, making it a charge 

 upon the Cuban budget. The United States 

 minister at Madrid accepted the compromise on 

 behalf of the claimant, but the sum offered was 

 not included in the Cuban budget, and when 

 Mr. Bayard pressed for its payment the Spanish 

 Government proposed to make it contingent 

 on the settlement of some outstanding claims 

 of Spanish subjects against the United States. 

 Mr. Bayard, Mr. Blaine, and Mr. Gresham con- 

 sidered it an international compact, and the 

 proposal to arbitrate other claims outstanding 

 between the two countries was partly intended to 

 remove parliamentary obstacles encountered by 

 the Spanish Government in providing payment 

 of the Mora indemnity. 



Puerto Rico. The Captain General is as- 

 sisted by a junta of military officers. Lieut.- 

 Gen. A. Daban was Captain "General at the be- 

 ginning of 1894. 



Statistics. The area of the island is 3,350 

 square miles. The population is 806,708. The 

 budget for 1893-'94 makes the revenue 3,903,655 

 pesos, of which 2,300,000 pesos are derived from 

 customs and 1,358,800 pesos from direct and in- 

 direct taxation. The estimated expenditure was 

 3,879,813 pesos, of which 1,050,006 pesos were 

 for the military. 



The total value of the imports for 1891 was 

 16,864,765 pesos, and of the exports 9,885,995 

 pesos. The chief exports and their values were : 

 Coffee, 5,297,565 pesos; sugar, 3,126,135 pesos; 

 tobacco, 781,870 pesos. The number of vessels 

 entered in 1891 was 1,311, of 1,327,192 tons; 

 cleared, 1.275 vessels, of 1,244,485 tons. There 

 are 12 miles of railroad and 470 miles of tele- 

 graphs. 



D 



DELAWARE, a Middle Atlantic State, one 

 of the original thirteen ; ratified the Federal Con- 

 stitution Dec. 7, 1787; area, 2,120 square miles. 

 Population by the census of 1890, 168,493. Capi- 

 tal. Dover. 



Government. The State officers during the 

 year were the following: Governor, Robert J. 

 Reynolds, Democrat; Secretary of State, John 

 D. Hawkins; Treasurer, Wilbur II. Burnite; 

 Auditor, John P. Dulaney ; Adjutant-General, 

 Garrett J. Hart ; Attorney-General, John R. Nich- 



olson ; Insurance Commissioner, Isaac N. Fooks : 

 Chancellor, James L. Walcott ; Chief Justice of 

 the Supreme Court, Charles B. Lore ; Associate 

 Justices, Ignatius C. Grubb, Charles M. Cullen, 

 and David T. Marvel. 



Finances. Following is the exhibit of the 

 State finances made in January : Balance in the 

 treasury Dec. 31, 1892, $5,439'.05 ; receipts dur- 

 ing the year, $301,756.91; total, $307,195.96; 

 disbursements, $300.594.31; balance belonging 

 to the general fund, $6,601.65 ; balance of school 



