REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
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Extraordinary Expenditure : —
Ministry of Finance .... „ „ the Interior ,, ,, Justice ....
„ Public Works . ,, „ Agriculture and Commerce . Expenditure on Railways and Canals .
Florins
£
1,200,000
600,000
10,000
600,000
159,000
22,229,000
120,000
60,000
1,000
60,000
15,900
2,222,900
Total extraordinary expenditure .
24,798,000
2,479,800
Total estimated expenditure for 1869 .
15-1,038,599
15,403,859
The Kingdom, besides its share of the national debt of the Austrian empire, has a debt of its own, amounting at the end of 1870, to 84,000,000 florins, or 8,400,000/. The debt consists of two foreign loans, the first, for the amount of 60,000,000 florins, or 6,000,000/., contracted, in June 1868, at Paris and Amsterdam ; and the second, for the amount of 24,000,000 florins, or 2,400,000/., issued, in April 1870, at Vienna and Frankfort. Both loans bear interest at five per cent., and are repayable, by means of sinking funds, in fifty years.
Army and Navy. 1. Army.
According to official returns, Austria possessed, at the commence- ment of 1869, a standing army numbering 278,470 men, on the peace-footing, and 838,700 on the war-footing, organised as follows : —
Number
Description of Troops of Standing Army
Peace
War
footing
footing I
Infantry : —
80 regiments of the line, each composed of 3 field
battalions, 2 reserve battalions, and 1 depot
battalion .......
121,840
485,440
14 Military frontier regiments, 6 of 3, and 8 of 4
battalions .....
12,307
53,823
1 regiment of ' Kaiser-jager,' of Tyrol, and 33 bat-
talions of 'Feld-jager' .....
20,251
54,463
12 companies of ambulance and hospital service . Total of infantry . Cavalry : —
1,180
3,876
155,578
597,602
14 regiments of dragoons, 12 heavy, and 2 light;
14 regiments of hussars ; and 2 regiments of kncers Total of cavalry .
35,793
58,794
