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.