Curious Items of Revenue
| ₱ cts. | |
| 2,760,613 Identification Documents (Cedulas personales), costing 4 per cent, to collect—gross value | 4,401,629 25 |
| Tax on the above, based on the estimated local consumption of Tobacco | 222,500 00 |
| Chinese Capitation Tax | 236,250 00 |
| Tax on the above for the estimated local consumption of Tobacco | 11,250 00 |
| Recognition of vassalage collected from the unsubdued mountain tribes | 12,000 00 |
| Industrial and Trading Licences (costing ½ per cent, to collect), gross value | 1,350,000 00 |
| Yield of the Opium Contract (farmed out) | 483,400 00 |
| Yield of the Cock-fighting Contract (farmed out) | 149,039 00 |
| Lotteries and Raffles, nett profit say | 501,862 00 |
| State Lands worked by miners | 100 00 |
| Sale of State Lands | 50,000 00 |
| Mint—Profits on the manipulation of the bullion, less expenses of the Mint (₱ 46,150), nett | 330,350 00 |
| Stamps and Stamped Paper | 548,400 00 |
| Convict labour hired out | 50,000 00 |
Curious Items of Expenditure
| ₱ cts. | |
| 34 per cent, of the maintenance of Fernando Po (by Decree of August 5, 1884) | 68,618 18 |
| Share of the pension paid to the heir of Christopher Columbus, the Duke de Veragua (₱ 23,400 a year) | 3,000 00 |
| Share of the pension paid to Ferdinand Columbus, Marquis de Bárboles | 1,000 00 |
| The Marquis de Bedmar is the heir of the assayer and caster in the Mint of Potosi (Peru). The concern was taken over by the Spanish Government, in return for an annual perpetual pension, of which this Colony contributed the sum of | 1,500 00 |
| The Consular and Diplomatic Services, Philippine Share | 66,000 00 |
| Postal and Telegraph Services (staff of 550 persons) | 406,547 17 |
| The Submarine Cable Co. Subsidy (Bolinao to Hong-Kong) | 48,000 00 |
| Charitable Institutions partly supported by Government, including the “Lepersʼ Hospital” ₱500 | 26,887 50 |
The Army and Armed Land Forces
Rank and File and Non-commissioned Officers as follows:—
| Infantry, Artillery, Engineer, and Carabineer Corps | 9,470 |
| Cavalry Corps | 407 |
| Disciplinary Corps (Convicts) | 630 |
| Disciplinary Corps (Non-commissioned Officers) | 92 |
| Three Civil Guard Corps (Provincial Constabulary) | 3,342 |
| Veteran Civil Guard Corps (Manila Military Police) | 400 |
| Total number of men | 14,341 |
| Army Officers in the Philippines. | |||||||||
| Year 1888. | |||||||||
| How Employed. | Lieutenant-Generals. | Brigadier-Generals. | Colonels. | Lieutenant-Colonels. | Majors. | Captains. | Lieutenants. | Sub-Lieutenants. | Totals. |
| Governor-General, with local rank of Captain-General | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Employed in Government Administration, Political Military Provincial Governments, Staff Officers and Officers at the Ordersof the Governor-General | 1 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 39 | 37 | 23 | 12 | 140 |
| With command or attached to Army Corps and Disciplinary Corps | 5 | 11 | 14 | 88 | 136 | 127 | 381 | ||
| Civil Guard | 3 | 3 | 9 | 33 | 54 | 54 | 156 | ||
| Veteran Civil Guard | 1 | 6 | 6 | 13 | |||||
| Invalid Corps | 1 | 1 | |||||||
| Military Academy | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | |||||
| Prisons and Penitentiaries | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 9 | ||||
| Commissariat Department | 1 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 18 | 35 | |||
| Judicial Audit Department | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | ||||
| In expectation of service | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 46 | ||
| In excess of Active Service requirements | 3 | 1 | 7 | 9 | 20 | ||||
| Total of Officers | 2 | 9 | 19 | 36 | 73 | 191 | 262 | 220 | 812 |
The Archbishop, as Vicar-General of the Armed Forces, ranked in precedence as a Field-Marshal. (In the Spanish Army a Field-Marshal ranks between a Brig.-General and Lieut.-General.)