REVENUE. 347 



Brought forward, . . $136,832,251 



1841 " 1845 54,465,970 



1846 " 1850 (approximate) 57,500,000 



1851 1 12,462,834 



1852 12,873,086 



Total $274,134,141 



A comparison of the foregoing views of the reve- 

 nue of the Spanish government in Cuba, with its 

 revenue in the vice-royalty of Mexico in 1809, the 

 year in which the revolution began, may not be unin- 

 teresting. General Zavala, in his " Ensayo Historico 

 de la Revolucion de Mexico," states the revenues of 

 the vice-royalty in detail, which reduced to a tabu- 

 lar form, exhibit the following figures : 



REVENUE. 



Mexico. Cuba. 



I. Mining revenue, $3,837,954 I. Maritime revenue, $8,870,000 



II. Internal taxes, 5,793,064 II. Internal taxes, 2,750,000 



III. Direct revenue, 1,487,116 III. Direct revenue, 980,000 



IV. Tobacco monopoly, 3,9 27, 82 2 IV. State property, 400,000 



$15,045,956 $13,000,000 



1 In estimating the revenue for 1851 and 1852, we have added to 

 the maritime revenue, as given by the " Balanzas " for those years, 

 an estimated revenue of four millions from other sources. 



