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sion agencies of all kinds : banking firms ; dry goods, groceries, wines, 

 furniture, and jewelry stores ; insurance companies ; restaurants, hotels, 

 and boarding-houses. Among the industrial establishments are em- 

 braced especially railway, telegraph and telephone companies ; cotton, 

 woollen, and silk mills ; factories of all kinds ; iron smelters ; printing, 

 engraving, and photographic establishments ; coffee, corn, and flour 

 mills, etc., etc. 



When the alcabalas were abolished a direct tax was established upon 

 some of the articles which paid the largest sums, namely : pulque, 

 wheat flour, and domestic brandy distilled from molasses. 



I annex a statement showing the proceeds of Direct Taxes in the 

 Federal District during the last twenty-seven fiscal years. 



RECEIPTS FROM DIRECT TAXES IN THE FEDERAL DISTRICT DURING 

 THE TWENTY-SEVEN FISCAL YEARS ENDING JUNE 30, 1896. 



