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humboldt's cuba. 



RECAPITULATION. 



Civil List, . , 

 Army List, 

 Navy List, 



$7,680,000 

 3,799,000 



, 1,750,000 

 2,771,000 



Revenue to the Crown, 



$16,000,000 



The net income to the crown of Spain from the 

 island of Cuba, it will be seen, is about two and 

 three quarters millions. The published returns show 

 that from 1836 to 1850 it averaged about two mil- 

 lions eight hundred thousand dollars. While this 

 revenue flows into the coffers of the State, the 

 administration proper has another source of revenue 

 in Cuba, in the percentage upon the product of their 

 offices which many officers in that island pay to the 

 officers in power in the mother country, that they 

 may retain their places. 



Baron Humboldt has given, in the preceding pages, 

 a succinct view of the declared revenue of Cuba to 

 1825, to which we can add the following, compiled 

 from the works of Don Eamon de la Sagra, the 

 " Cuadro Estadistico," and several " Balanzas," in 

 our possession : 



1826 to 1830 $42,808,182 



1831 " 1835 43,373,087 



1836 " 1840 50,650,982 



Carry forward . .. $136,832,251 



