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CUSTOM-HOUSE REVENUE.
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in the following year fell to little more than 5,000,000, which is about its present average. This sum may be divided among the different ports as follows:—
| Dollars. | |
| Vera Cruz | 3,329,802 |
| Tampico | 883,039 |
| Matamoras | 312,403 |
| Mazatlan | 383,159 |
| Guyamas | 55,814 |
| Monterey | 96,853 |
| Acapulco | 17,182 |
| San Blas | 208,845 |
| 5,287,097 |
This corresponds to about 12,300,000 dollars' value of importation annually, divided (according to an estimate) in the following manner:—
| Dollars. | ||
| From | England | 4,500,000 |
| " | France | 3,000,000 |
| " | Hamburgh. | 1,500,000 |
| " | China | 1,000,000 |
| " | United States. | 800,000 |
| " | Spain | 500,000 |
| " | Genoa, and other ports. | 1,000,000 |
| 12,300,000 |
The expense to the government, for the collection of this revenue, is about 348,290 dollars.
