| Receipts: | |
| (1.) Property income from domains and forests | $11.7 |
| From mines and salt-works | 2.5 |
| From railways | 22.5 |
| Miscellaneous | 5.0 |
| $41.7 | |
| (2.) Royal Lottery | 1.0 |
| (3.) Bureau of Justice | $12.7 |
| Harbors and bridges | .5 |
| 13.2 | |
| (4.) Direct taxes | $35.5 |
| (5.) Indirect taxes (for Prussia) | 12.3 |
| Total receipts | $103.6 |
| Expenditures: | |
| (1.) Civil list | 3.0 |
| (2.) Debt | 25.0 |
| (3.) Various ministries, schools, etc. | 49.5 |
| (4.) Pensions | 4.0 |
| (5.) Miscellaneous | 19.5 |
| Total expenditures[352] | $101.0 |
The Prussian direct taxes include (1) a land-tax, (2) a house-tax, (3) an income-tax, (4) a class-tax, (5) a trade-tax, and (6) miscellaneous taxes.
IV. How the French supply themselves may be seen by the following statement:[353]
French Budget, 1881.
[In millions and tenths of millions.]
| Receipts: | |
| Direct taxes | $75.9 |
| Similar taxes | 4.7 |
| Registry, stamps, etc | 135.1 |
| Forests | 7.6 |
| Customs (and salt duty $3.5) | 65.4 |
| Indirect taxes (including tobacco) | 209.7 |
| Post-Office and telegraph | 27.2 |
| Miscellaneous | 29.8 |
| Total receipts | $555.4 |
| Expenditures: | |
| Public debt, etc. | $249.0 |
| General functions of the ministries | 243.7 |
| Administrative expenses, cost of revenue collections, etc. | 58.5 |
| Miscellaneous | 3.5 |
| Total expenditures | $554.7 |
The direct taxes are (1) on property; (2) one nearly like our poll-tax together with a species of income-tax; (3) a tax on doors and windows; and (4) one on licenses.