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marks for the imperial treasury, 75,613,300 marks 

 for the imperial debt, 09,103,100 marks for the 

 navy, 65,295,000 marks for the Pension fund, 

 44,348,000 marks for the Ministry of the Interior, 

 27,938,500 marks for the Invalid fund, 11,999,900 

 marks for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 2, 11 7, 900 

 marks for the Ministry of Justice, 693,300 marks 

 for the Reichstag, 840,100 marks for the audit 

 bureau, 390,600 marks for railroads, and 236,000 

 marks for the imperial chancellery. Of the fed- 

 eral contributions in 1900 Prussia paid 298,040,500 

 marks, Bavaria 54,733,000 marks, Saxony 35,- 

 465,300 marks, Wiirtemberg 19,693,200 marks, 

 Baden 16,265,100 marks, Alsace-Lorraine 15,494,- 

 800 marks, Hesse 9,716,800 marks, Hamburg 6,376,- 

 400 marks, Mecklenburg-Schwerin 5,593,500 marks, 

 Brunswick 4,063,800 marks, Oldenburg 3,496,200 

 marks, Saxe-Weimar 3,176,100 marks, Anhalt 

 2,745,200 marks, Saxe-Meiningen 2,189,100 marks, 

 Saxe-Coburg-Gotha 2,026,100 marks, Bremen 1,838,- 

 300 marks, Lippe 1,203,500 marks, Reuss-Schleiz 

 1,241,500 marks, Mecklenburg-Strelitz 950,100 

 marks, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt 830,400 marks, 

 Liibeck 779,500 marks, Schwarzburg-Sondershau- 

 sen 728,200 marks, Reuss-Greiz 631,300 marks, 

 Waldeck 540,300 marks, Schaumburg-Lippe 385,- 

 600 marks. 



The funded debt of the empire on March 31, 

 1898, consisted of 1,240,000,000 marks of 3A-per- 

 cent. and 942,246,800 marks of 3-per-cent. bonds; 

 total, 2,182,246,800 marks. Of the old debt of the 

 North German Confederation 17,700,000 marks re- 

 mained unpaid, and the unfunded debts were 

 70,000,000 marks of treasury bonds and 120,000,000 

 marks of paper money, making the total lia- 

 bilities 2,372,264,500 marks, the 3-per-cent. bonds 

 having been increased by 40,000,000 marks during 

 the year and the treasury bonds by 10,000,000 



larks. The amount of the Invalid fund was 

 105,741,710 marks. The war fund of 120,000,000 



larks was preserved in specie. 

 The budgets and debts of the individual states, 

 the case of the most of them for 1900, in that 

 of the others for 1899, are given in marks in the 

 following table : 



In Alsace-Lorraine there was also an extraor- 

 linary revenue of 4,387,908 marks and an expendi- 

 ture of 4,847.240 marks provided for. Anhalt has 

 7,199,201 marks' worth of public property. The 

 debt of Baden is secured on the railroads, which 

 produced a net revenue of 23,299,488 marks in 



1897 and have cost the state 489,000,000 marks 

 to build. x Nearly half of Bavaria's revenue is 

 derived from railroads, posts, telegraphs, and 

 mines, and of the debt 1,090,441,943 marks were 

 raised for building railroads, which yielded above 

 expenses and interest 13,882,044 marks in 1897. 

 The debt of Bremen, incurred for railroads and 

 harbor works, requires a great part of the revenue 

 to pay the interest. Brunswick devotes a separate 

 revenue of 2,634,000 marks to education and art, 

 and the duke's civil list of 1,125,000 marks is also 

 outside of the budget; besides the revenue from 

 domains and forests and from an invested fund 

 of 41,300,000 marks, the state receives an annuity 

 of 2,625,000 marks on account of the railroads 

 transferred to Prussia, while it has to pay an an- 

 nuity of 1,219,740 marks to extinguish a premium 

 loan that is separate from the general debt, 80 

 per cent, of the latter having been spent on rail- 

 roads. The debt of Hamburg, incurred for public 

 improvements, absorbs 13,714,500 marks of the 

 revenue, one third of which is raised, as in Bremen 

 also, by direct taxation, which in Hamburg is as 

 much as 30 marks per capita. In Hesse the debt 

 is represented by railroads; there was an extraor- 

 dinary revenue of 4,021,388 marks and extraor- 

 dinary expenditure of 3,224,900 marks. Liibeck 

 possesses domains and forests and invested funds 

 from which two fifths of the revenue is obtained, 

 and direct taxes give most of the remainder, while 

 of the expenditure one fourth goes for interest 

 and amortization of the debt. The budget of 

 Mecklenburg-Schwerin is the common budget, ex- 

 clusive of the separate revenue of the states and 

 the revenue of the grand duke, which amounts 

 to 20,926,000 marks a year, derived from domains. 

 funds, and railroads, in value far exceeding the 

 debt. In Mecklenburg-Strelitz the grand duke 

 bears the whole cost of the public administration, 

 and publishes no accounts of his revenue and ex- 

 penditure ; there is a debt of about 6,000,000 marks. 

 Of the revenue of Prussia 92,022,804 marks come 

 from domains and forests, 183,131,800 marks from 

 direct taxes, 78,885,000 marks from indirect taxes, 

 82,475,900 marks from the lottery, 2,357,900 marks 

 from the marine bank, 364,070 marks from the 

 mint, 149,289,988 marks from mines, furnaces, and 

 salt works, 1,285,962,519 marks from railroads, 

 334,980,560 from the finance administration and 

 dotations, 71,117,200 marks from the Ministry of 

 Justice, 16,734,631 marks from the Ministry of the 

 Interior, 8,038,000 marks from the Ministry of 

 Public Works, 5,237,281 marks from the Ministry 

 of State, 4,683,566 marks from the Ministry of 

 Agriculture, 4,448,359 marks from the Ministry of 

 Instruction and Worship, 4,446,381 marks from 

 the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, 2,146,489 

 marks from the Ministry of State, 4,600 marks 

 from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and 300 

 marks from the Ministry of War. Of the total 

 expenditure *of the Prussian Government 1,050,- 

 953,998 marks are working expenditure, of which 

 45,396,150 marks are required for the domains and' 

 forests, 122,649,240 marks for financial administra- 

 tion, 127,955,497 marks for the operation of mines, 

 furnaces, and salt works, and 754,953,111 marks 

 for the operation of railroads; 648,085,662 marks 

 are charges on the consolidated fund, of which 

 227,685,246 marks are interest on the public debt, 

 including railroad debts, 39,033,903 marks the 

 annual sinking fund, 298,068,026 marks the annual 

 contribution to imperial funds, 70,970,991 marks 

 appanages, annuities, and indemnities, 8,000.000 

 marks the addition to the King's crown dotation, 

 2,444,140 marks expenses of management, etc., 

 1,672,915 marks the expense of the Chamber of 

 Deputies, and 210,440 marks that of the Chamber 



