An Estimate of the Population of the Philippines in 1890.

Peninsular Spaniards, including the garrisons, friars, officials and private persons.	14,000
Spaniards born in the islands.	8,000
Spanish mestizos	75,000
Foreigners of white races	2,000
Foreign mestizos	7,000
Chinese	125,000
Chinese mestizos	500,000
Moros of Mindanao, Joló, Tawi-tawi, Basilan, Balábac, and other islands	600,000
Heathen in all the archipelago—Igorrotes, Manobos, Subanos, Montéses, Ibilaos, Aetas, Ifugaos, etc., etc.	800,000
Christian natives	5,869,000
Total	8,000,000

The above is taken from a pamphlet called ‘Filipinas’ Fundamental Problem,’ by a Spaniard long resident in those islands, published in Madrid, 1891, by D. Luis Aguado. The pamphlet itself is a violent attack on Rizal and those who sympathised with him, and holds out as the only remedy against insurrection the encouragement of Spanish immigration on an extensive scale.

Estimate of Philippine Income and Expenditure, 1896–97.

	$
Direct Taxes—
Property tax, $140,280; industrial and commercial tax, $1,400,700;cédulas personales, [1]$5,600,000; capitation tax onChinese, $510,190; acknowledgment of vassalage from outlaws andheathen, $20,000; tax of 10 per cent. on railway fares, $32,000;various surtaxes, $63,000; tax of 10 per cent. on the pay ofemployés paid by local funds, $80,000; tax of 10 per cent. onthe pay of employés paid by the State, $650,000	8,496,170
Custom House—
Imports, $3,600,000; exports, [2]$1,292,550; loading tax,$410,000; unloading, $570,000; trans-shipment, $1000; warehousing,$4000; fines, surtaxes, etc., $22,000; tax on consumable goods,[3]$301,000	6,200,550
Monopoly—
Opium contract (farmed out)[4]	576,000
Stamps—
Stamped paper, do. for fines, for bills of exchange, post officestamps, patent medicine stamps, stamps for telegrams, receipts,signatures, passports, less $200,000 paid to Bolmao and Hong Kong CableCo., etc.	646,000
Lottery—
Profits of the Manila lottery, licenses for raffles, etc.	1,000,000
Crown Property—
Rents of mining claims, $2000; royalties on forest produce,$170,000; sale of Crown lands, of buildings, and fines	257,000
Miscellaneous—
Unexpended balances, $50,000; produce of convict labour, $4000;sale of buildings and stores of War Department and Navy, $3800; profitson coining money, $200,000; sundry receipts, $40,500	298,300
Total	[5]$17,474,020

	$
General charges—
Ministry of the Colonies, Court of Audit, expenses of Fernando Po,civil, military and naval pensions, interest on savings bank deposits,passages of Government employés	1,507,900
State—
Diplomatic and consular expenses	74,000
Grace and Justice—
Courts of Justice, register of property, gaols, the clergy,missionaries, public worship, passages of missionaries, college formissionaries	1,896,277
Army—
Pay and allowances, provisions, forage, clothing, war-like stores,invalids, orphans, extraordinary credit for the campaign in Mindanao($624,680)	6,042,442
Treasury—
Central administration, mint at Manila, provincial administration,pay and allowances of corps of carbineers (custom house guards), costof selling stamped paper, of collecting taxes, of working thelottery	1,393,184
Navy—
Pay and allowances, victualling and clothing, material for thestation, for the squadron, material for the arsenal ($1,260,652)	3,566,528
Civil Service—
Colonial Secretary (pay and allowances), Governor-General, civilgovernors, political and military governors, council of administration,the Guardia Civil, post office, telegraph, health officers ofports	2,198,350
Education and public works—
Technical schools, nautical do. of drawing, painting, sculpture andengraving, university, normal school, observatory of Manila ($20,000per annum), pay and allowances of engineers and assistants of publicworks, of the woods and forests, of mines, and of the model farms	615,198
Total	17,293,879

N.B.—Expenditure on Army and Navy $9,608,970, considerably more than half the total revenue.

Value of Land.

Official valuation of land required for the construction of the Manila-Dagupan Railway. The expropriation commenced in 1888 and continued up to end of 1892, and the prices paid were far in excess of estimate.

	First Section.				Second Section.				Third Section.
Sub-section	1.	2.	3.	4.	1.	2.	3.	4.	1.	2.	3.	4.	5.
From kil.	0	13.8	29.2	45.8	60.7	75.5	90.5	107.3	116.5	134.6	149.2	162.9	179.3
To kil.	13.8	29.2	45.8	60.7	75.5	90.5	107.3	116.5	134.6	149.2	162.9	179.3	192.3
	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$	$
Water meadows or irrigated rice land	480	240	240	240	220	200	120	100	88	80	100	140	180
Rice lands (dry), 1st class	200	192	180	168	120	108	40	40	40	32	48	72	80
Rice lands (dry), 2nd class	168	160	160	152	72	60	24	24	24	16	28	40	44
Cane fields, 1st class	272	240	260	100	80	60	28	20	20	16	32	40	48
Cane fields, 2nd class	200	160	192	80	56	40	20	12	12	8	20	28	32
Stony land near the sea	140	120
Buyo (betel) plantations	240	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	72	72
Nipa palm groves	88	80	72	60	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	24
Mangrove swamp	76	60	48	32	..	..	..	..	..	..	..	12	16
Gardens and building lots	200	180	180	160	100	88	32	28	28	20	32	48	56
Forest land	..	..	..	..	..	10	6.4	4	2.4	1.6	4	4
Bush land	..	..	..	..	..	8	4.8	2.4	1.6	1.6	2.4
Pasture	..	..	..	..	..	..	12	10

Price is given in Mexican dollars per acre.

[1]

The total receipts from this tax are	$7,000,000
The local funds receive 20 per cent., say	$1,400,000
Remainder	$5,600,000

[2] See Table of dues on Exports.

[3] See Table of this tax.

[4] In August 1900 the Straits Settlements Government received offers for the opium and spirit farms in Singapore, Penang and Malacca, for three years from January 7th, 1901, amounting to $385,000 per month.

[5] In 1886–87 the revenue only amounted to $9,324,974; the Army estimates for 1888 were $3,918,760, the Navy $2,573,776. If to the revenue of 1896–97 we add the amount paid over to local funds, the total will be double the revenue raised ten years before.