Public Revenue.

The public revenue is derived from the custom duties, direct taxes on property, licenses to trade houses, stamped paper, stamps, import and export duties, port dues, municipal duties in the capital and in the departments, duties on indirect inheritance, trade patents, cattle marks, etc.

Its amount has been during the three following periods:

1882,$ 9,095,409
1883,10,928,639
1884-1885 (economical year),12,373,688
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Total,$32,397,736
1885-1886 (economical year),$11,719,692
1886-1887 " " 12,704,832
1887-1888 " " 13,668,096
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Total,$38,092,620
1888-1889 (economical year), $15,690,293
1889-1890 " "17,415,154
1890-1891 " "14,925,363
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Total,$48,030,810

The increase during the second period, if compared with the first one is: $5,694,884, and the increase of the third period compared with the second one is: $9,938,190.