146 Statistical Wotes on dDesfco. 



1853-1854, according to the report of M. Olazagarre 



( l8 55) 8,399,208 93 



1854-1855, according to the report of M. Lerdo de 



Tejada (1857) 8,096,208 85 



1855-1856, according to the report makes the receipts 

 for the first six months amount to $3,379,761 35, 



which for the year is 6,759,522 7 



1856-1857, average for the six years previous 6,854,061 78 



1857-1858 " " " " 6,854,061 78 



1858-1859 6,854,061 78 



1859-1860 6,854,061 78 



1860-1861 " " " " 6,854,061 78 



1861-1862 " " " " 6,854,061 78 



1862-1863 " " " " 6,854,061 78 



1863-1864 " " " " 6,854,061 78 



1864-1865 " " " " 6,854,061 78 



1865-1866 " " " " 6,851,06178 



1866-1867 " " 6,851,061 78 



1867-1868, according to the amount of the receipts. . . . 9,566,360 99 



1868-1869 " " " .... 9,606,491 73 



1869-1870 7,824,525 57 



1870-1871 10,014,277 60 



1871-1872 8,430,211 oo 



1872-1873 11,833,117 52 



1873-1874 13,981,795 42 



1874-1875 11,821,533 49 



Total $367,725,836 01 



Average in one year $7,07!, 650 69 



Internal Revenue. The Federal Treasury of Mexico depended 

 up to 1867 mainly upon import duties, and as it was not safe to have 

 only that source of revenue, when I occupied for the first time the 

 Treasury Department, I introduced a system of internal revenue 

 through the use of stamps, which met with a great deal of opposition 

 at the time, but which has finally been developed very largely, yielding 

 now almost as much as the import duties. The receipts during the 

 six months from January ist to June 3oth, ^75, amounted to $1,097,- 

 668 28, which in a whole year would make, duplicating it, $2,195, 

 336 56, while in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1896, the receipts 

 amounted to $18,078,952 54, or nearly eight times as much. 



We have had since 1861 a comparative large source of revenue 

 called Federal Tax, which up to 1892 was 25 per cent, of all the reve- 

 nues collected by the States and Municipalities in Mexico. That rate 



