MINERAL PRODUCTIONS. 



95 



Amount brought forward, 



Pay of Oidores, and other persons employed in judi- 

 cial functions and measures for the conversion of 

 the Indians, ....... 



Pensions, . . . . . . . 



Hospital expenses, repairs of factories, . 



Return of imposts, ...... 



Amount of Income, 

 " " Expenses, 



$14,449,696 

 6,146,800 



$3,800,000 



250,000 



200,000 

 . 400,800 

 1,496,000 



$6,146,800 



Balance, $8,302,896 



This was then the clear income of Mexico in the year 1809. 

 The same amount may be considered as the usual yearly revenue 

 from the close of the eighteenth century, and if we deduct a half 

 of this sum as being afterwards expended on this side of the Atlan- 

 tic, it may be calculated that about four millions of dollars were 

 transmitted to Spain annually. 



3d. Mineral Productions. 

 In order to judge what regions of New Spain were most pro- 

 ductive in mineral wealth and their relative productiveness, we will 

 insert the value of the royal dues upon silver, amounting in all to 

 the rate of 10^ per cent, in 1795, in which year $24,593,481 w r ere 

 coined in gold and silver at the Mexican mint. 

 San Luis Potosi, 

 Zacatecas, . 

 Guanajuato, 

 Rosario, 

 Bolanos, 

 Mexico, 

 Guadalajara, 

 Durango, 

 Zimapan, 

 Sombrerete, 

 Chihuahua, ' . 



All the mines in 



96,000 1 

 69,000 

 67,000 

 45,000 

 41,000 

 36,000 \ 



Marks of silver, — 

 which may be esti- 

 mated at eight dol- 

 lars and a quarter 

 per mark. 



19,000 

 33,000 

 10,000 

 7,000 

 7,000 



the Spanish possessions consumed annually 

 30,000 quintals of quicksilver, which, at the rate of $50, (at which 

 they might be calculated, on an average of years,) amounts to a 

 million and a half. 



When fifteen millions were annually coined the king received 6 

 per ct. upon that sum ; and when the amount exceeded 18 millions, 

 scarcely 7. This difference was owing to the rules and system of 

 the mint, in which there were the same expenses in coining from 



