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KEYENTJE AND EXPENDITURE.

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ture (Staatsverwaltungs Ausgaben), and charges on the consolidated fund (Dotationen). In the estimates for 1870, the branches of expenditure were as follows : —

Expenditure for the Year 1870.

Current Expenditure: — Thaler

Ministry of Finance 18,007,012

„ „ Commerce and Public Works .... 40,224,556

„ State 75,509

Total current expenditure

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lesia:

tical

Affairs

Administrative Expenditure : — Ministry of Finance

,, „ Commerce and Public Wor

„ „ Justice

,, ,, The Interior

,, „ Agriculture

„ „ Public Instruction and Ecc

,, ,, State

,, ,, Foreign Affairs

Charges for the Hohenzollern territory

Total administrative expenditure

Charges on Consolidated Fund : —

Addition to ■ Krondotation ' of the King Interest on public debt, including railway debt Sinking fund of debt „ „ „

Annuities .......

Chamber of Lords .....

Chamber of Deputies .....

Total charges on Consolidated Fund

Total ordinary expenditure Extraordinary expenditure ....

Total expenditure

58,307,077

31,196,634

9,382,630

17,188,335

8,456,319

2,387,322

6,253,894

384,214

47,500

216,415

75,513,263

1,500,000

17,434,133

8,666,141

430,410

40,910

243,000

28,432,510

162,252,850 5,848,522

168,101,372 £25,215,205

The public debt of the kingdom, exclusive of the provinces annexed in 1806, was, according to an official report laid before the House of Deputies in the session of 1869, as follows on January 1, 1870:—

1. National debt bearing interest: —

Consolidated debt of May 2, 1842 (Staatsscl Voluntary loan of the year 1848 Loan of 1850

„ of 1852

„ of 1853

., of 1854 Preference loan of 1855 Railway ,, of 1855 Loan of 1856 of 1857

Thaler uldscheine) 64,192,800

2,194,400 12,445,200 11,455,900

3,795,900 11, 75«,900 11,300.000

6,275,500 14,672,300

6,934,100