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As it is an unimportant question whether Cortéz first built a chapel for the Franciscans back of the Cathedral, or the one in the yard of the Franciscans, I here repeat the popular tradition.
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Humboldt, Essai Politique.
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As my readers may be a little curious to know how the city government is sustained, I translate the statement of city revenue of 1851.
| There were in that year 379 licensed pulque-shops, yielding a revenue of | $65,297 |
| 538 retail grocer shops in which liquor is sold by the gill | 25,609 |
| 8 breweries pay a city tax of | 1,697 |
| 132 cafés, fondas, and eating-houses pay | 4,418 |
| Tax on grain and bread consumed in the city | 53,762 |
| Public diversions, $3103; permitted plays (not gambling), $3221 | 6,324 |
| Tax on canals, $6798; tax on coaches, $20,157; markets, $56,130 | 83,085 |
| Donation of the proceeds of a bull-fight | 830 |
| Gifts, in bread and meat, to the prisons | 4,561 |
| A tax of one dollar on the slaughtering of 21,984 beef-cattle | 21,984 |
| 16,404 calves were slaughtered, paying six shillings tax | 12,303 |
| 145,040 sheep, at one shilling and sixpence | 27,194 |
| 9394 pigs paid five shillings tax, or | 5,870 |
| 42,734 swine, full grown, paid six shillings | 32,055 |
| 7750 goats and kids, at one shilling and sixpence | 1,453 |
| Tax on property entering the city gates | 1,878 |
| Licenses to slaughter to individuals | 136 |
| The water rents of $20,000 were consumed in repairs. | |
| The tax on fish yielded | $390 |
| The balance of the revenue consists of certain city properties. |
Expenditures.
| The heaviest items are for the public prisons | $69,863 |
| For the hospitals of the insane | 48,000 |
| Lancasterian schools | 3,600 |
| Lights and city patrol | 52,422 |
| Exhibition of flowers and fruits in November last | 1,831 |
| Salaries of school-teachers, and rent of houses for schools | 4,812 |
| Religious worship in Hospital of San Hippolito, and for vaccine matter | 2,282 |
| Cleaning the streets by night and by day | 21,378 |
| Salaries | 31,472 |
| Dinners and festivals | 151 |
The city has a debt of $617,978, and has, as a set-off, a claim against the supreme government for $1,700,000 of its funds seized from time to time, and for keeping prisoners.