General State of the Revenues and Expenses of Spain in the Year 1778.
REVENUES.
| Reals de vel. | |
| Provincial duties, | 70,000,000 |
| Duties on tobacco, | 55,000,000 |
| Duties on salt, | 20,000,000 |
| Duties on wool, | 17,000,000 |
| General duties, | 48,060,000 |
| Duties on brandy, | 4,525,000 |
| 2 per cent duty on the Octrois, former grants | |
| of the Crown, | 500,000 |
| Taxes on the houses in Madrid, | 1,200,000 |
| 1. King's domain in the Serrara, | 140,000 |
| Post office and couriers, | 34,000,000 |
| Tax on cards, | 1,000,000 |
| Stamp paper, | 4,312,000 |
| Tax on the taverns in Madrid, | 196,000 |
| Various revenues farmed, | 6,418,552 |
| 2 Manufacture of glass at St Ildefonso, | 1,500,000 |
| 3 Manufactures of St Ferdinando and | |
| Guaudalaxa, | 1,800,000 |
| Extraordinary effects, | 35,000,000 |
| Books of Advocates and Attorneys, | 62,000 |
| Fines in the chamber of Castille, | 72,000 |
| Effects in the same chamber, | 786,800 |
| Tax on the Grand Masters, | 1,800,000 |
| Do. arising from the secular annals and | |
| vacancies, | 1,300,000 |
| Royal lottery, | 4,500,000 |
| Cruzada, | 20,000,000 |
| 4 Effects of the kingdom of Navarre, | 47,500,000 |
| American revenue[27], | 200,600,000 |
| Clergy, | 13,000,000 |
| —-—-—-— | |
| 562,273,152 |
EXPENSES.
| Reals de vel. | |
| The Court[28], | 108,500,000 |
| 5 Land forces, | 204,202,000 |
| 6 Marine, | 100,000,000 |
| Secretary of the Indies, | 8,000,000 |
| Department of Finance, | 4,500,000 |
| Favers and justice, | 1,100,000 |
| To support the tribunals, | 8,422,769 |
| 7 Secretary of state and foreign affairs, | 9,873,288 |
| 8 Extraordinary expenses, | 30,000,000 |
| —-—-—-— | |
| 474,598,251 |
I subjoin the result of my inquiries touching the articles marked No. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8.
No. 1, 2, 3. The sums mentioned in the preceding statement as arising from the revenues numbered as above may be deducted, as concurrent testimony induces me to believe, that the expenses consume near the whole of the revenue.
No. 4. I have been also assured, that this article is much exaggerated.
No. 5. The expenses of this establishment have greatly increased, but I have not been able to ascertain the sum.