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334 MEXICO. the Coinage of all the Mints in 1826 having only amounted to 8,451,000 dollars, while the registered exportation of Specie during the same period exceeded Sevep millions and a half. It may, perhaps, be interesting, in the absence of more authentic data, to trace the progress of some of the different Custom-houses established at the ports, which have been opened to Foreign Trade since 1824, as their receipts, under all the disadvantages of a system new in all its parts, and confided, in its first application, to agents unfitted, in many instances, by long habits of corruption, for any very strenu- ous exertions, afford, certainly, the very best evidence of increasing commercial activity. I shall, therefore, give a Comparative Table of their amoimt : — Produce in dollars. 'Campeche Isla del Carmen Tabasco Tampico (Pueblo Viejo) Tampico de TamaulTpas rl823 Refugio and Soto la Marina, in ^2224 Acapulco {^^^^ • ; Mazatlan Ouaymas in 1821 1824. 115,033 7,446 367,680 14,538 113,119 20,362 100,308 30,392 26,736 1826, 10 months. 157,464 19,280 36,682 480,195 326,640 378,734 422,343 125,298 44,676 I must again state that the sums given in the preceding Table are not meant to convey any idea of the value of the Imports introduced through the different pqrts, but merely to show what has been done towards the organization of a system, by which the amount of these Iniports may, here- after, be ascertained. Smuggling prevails at present, to a most disgraceful extent.