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THE CUBA REVIEW 



SITUATION OF THE CUBAN TREASURY 



The published returns of the Cuban Treasury, showing its condition on December 

 1910, are as follows : 

 Cash on hand (in the Treasury 



and in the National Bank 



Cuba and Royal Bank of 



Canada) November 30, 1910. $1,769,587 



Expenditures for December : 



Disbursements, budget 1910-11. $2,672, 



Receipts for December : 



Customs receipts 2,343,132 



Consular receipts 



Posts and telegraphs 



Internal revenue* 



Income from public (state) 



property 



Miscellaneous revenues 



National lottery 



Loan taxes (excise matches, 



etc.) 



Miscellaneous accounts : 



Speyer ($35,000,000 loan, first 

 50 per cent 



Balance of army (1896) pay, 

 second 50 per cent 



Postal money orders 



Checks pending payment ..... 



Fees from honorary consul- 

 ates 



(Semipublic) works per- 

 formed for account of pri- 

 vate persons 



Epidemics _• 



Maintenance of detained immi- 

 grants 



Refunds • 



In hands of collectors for ac- 

 counting 



28,232 

 90,837 

 69,271 



14,866 



69,556 



207,790 



340,498 



675 



295 



56,084 



3,816 



16 



24,609 

 1,497 



181 

 259,300 



3,510,655 

 151,137 



Total ■ 5,431,379 



State transfer taxes and the like. 



Disbursements, budget 1909-10. 



Disbursements, budget 1908-9. 



Disbursements, prior budgets.. 



Disbursements, special laws of 

 1906 



Disbursements, decrees pro- 

 visional government 



Disbursements, laws of 1909.. 



Disbursements, laws of 1910.. 



Disbursements, loan-tax ad- 

 • ministration 



Miscellaneous accounts : 



Speyer ($35,000,000) loan, first 



50 per cent 



Balance of army (1896) pay, 



second 50 per cent 



Postal money orders 



Checks pending payment .... 

 (Semipublic) works performed 



for account of private persons 



Sewering of Habana 



Sewering of Cienfuegos 



Cash on hand : 



In Treasury $1,232,120 



In National Bank of 



Cuba 577,598 



In Royal Bank of 



Canada 150,613 



In hands of 

 counting . 



collectors for ac- 



10." 



31, 



259 

 713 

 394 

 508 



5,000 



88, 

 10 



617 

 587 

 000 



108,608 



6, 



70, 



6, 



14, 



160 



55, 



,000 



000 

 586 

 153 



,923 

 ,000 

 ,563 



3,319,911 



1,960,331 



151,137 



5,431,379 



Available to paymasters for cur- 

 rent and extraordinary dis- 

 bursements 3,532,854 



No Duty for Machinery 



A bill has been introduced in the Cuban 

 Chamber of Representatives to grant ex- 

 emption from customs duties on various 

 apparatus and machinery for the manufac- 

 ture of salt, to be imported at either the 

 port of Habana or that of Cardenas, by 

 a firm that contemplates the erection of 

 a salt factory on the peninsula of Hicacos. 

 If the measure passes, a bond for the duty 

 on the machinery will be required, which 

 will not be released until after proof is 

 given that the machinery has reached its 

 proper destination. 



Ten thousand dollars' worth of material 

 to be used in the operation of a condensed- 

 milk factory at Camaguey, and thereby ex- 



empted from customs duties, had previously 

 been approved by President Gomez. The 

 text of the new law is on file at the Bureau 

 of ^Manufacturers in Washington. 



The senate, on January 25th, read a bill 

 and referred it to the proper committee, 

 granting an appropriation of $300,000 for 

 the construction of six revenue cutters of 

 a capacity from two hundred to two hun- 

 dred and fifty tons of displacement, and 

 with a draugiit not over six and one-half 

 feet, and adequate for safe sailing in any 

 season of the year along the north and 

 south coast of the island of Cuba. 



The appropriation for this purpose will 

 be included in the budget for 1911-12. 



