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of seven millions, of which five are derived 

 from land. 



2. The Duchy of Mecklembourg-Schwerin is ad- 



ministered partly on the modern and partly 

 on the feudal system, but the former pre- 

 dominates. There are two public budgets. 

 That of the Duke is of the greater im- 

 portance, and amounted to 14,500,000 

 marks in 1887, of which 7,000,000 were 

 derived from landed property. 1 The second 

 budget is that of the municipal expenditure 

 (Gemeinsamen Finanzverwaltung), which is 

 defrayed by means of rates and taxes, the 

 receipts of which amounted in 1887 to 

 4,175,000 marks. 



3. In the larger States /)f the Empire the feudal 

 system has completely disappeared, but the revenue 

 obtained from collective property forms an im- 

 portant part of the public income. 



Bavaria . . . 17 '3 % 



Wiirtemberg . . 13'2 % 



Saxony . . . 9 '7 % 



Baden . . . M % 



Prussia . . . 8'4 % 



4. In the budget of the Empire, which is of 

 recent construction, naturally no traces of the feudal 

 system remain. 



1 These lands comprise more than 99 German square miles with 

 over 206,000 inhabitants about 37 per cent, of the population. 

 L. Beaulieu, L, p. 43. 



