REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
287
Expenditure
18
17
is drachmas
OS
drachmas
&
Public debt .
6,091.190
217,543
7,096,370
253,442
Civil list ....
1,125,000
40,178
1,125,000
10,178
Legislative chamber.
371,000
13,250
381,874
13,638
Foreign office .
S42,17.3
30,078
834,028
29,787 ;
Ministry of justiet .
2,483,841
88,708
2,441,022
87,179
Ministry of interior .
3,909,556
139,627
3. .311, 384
125,407
Ministry of religion and
education
1.49.'). 183
53,400
1,653,446
•59,052
' Ministry of war
8,031.282
286,831
8,454,250
301,936
Ministry of marine .
1,629,150
.58,184
2,053,300
73,333
Ministry of finance .
( Jost of administration and
1,065,085
38,039
1,132,398
40,443
supervision. .
2,302,008
82,214
2.289,0.31
SI. 7-52
Miscellaneous expenditure
Total .
1,338,000
17,786
2,018,000
72,071
30,683,470
1,095,838
32,990,123
1,178,218
The above estimates represent the so-called ordinary expenditure, to which were added in each year supplementary credits. As finally voted by the chamber, the expenditure for the year 1868 stood as follows : —
Ordinary expenditure
Supplementary .. Extraordinary ..
Drachmas 32,! .12:;
1,158.000 11,200.000
= 1.178,218
41,357
400.000
4.5,348,123 1,619,575
This expenditure was to be met by a revenue estimated at 33,508,000 drachmas, or 1.100,714/., while the deficit of 11,840,123 drachmas, or 422,861/., was to lie covered by loans.
The actual expenditure of the kingdom for many years is believed to have been much larger than that shown in theVndget estimates; but no official returns giving the real income and expenses of the government have been published since the year 1859. T< > the budget of Greece there was added, for the first time, that oi' the Ionian Islands, in 1865. According to the Government estimates, the islands were to contribute 3,648/Jll drachmas, or 100,318/., to the revenue of the kingdom, with an expenditure, however, of nearly twice the amount. But these estimates were avowedly conjectural, and in the absence of any returns regarding the actual revenue and expenditure, there is no basis for judging whether the Ionian Islands will offer in the future a source of additional revenue or of increased expenditure to Greece.
