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COSTA RICA.
Licences
Church funds consolidated Bullion office and mint Sale of beer Fines on cattle Public lands and titles Miscellaneous receipts Proceeds of loans
Total . Expenditure of 1867-
Government and legislature Courts of Justice ....
"War department ....
Public works department Custom-house and Government offices . Diplomatic and consular bodies . Ecclesiastical salaries .... Public instruction .... Collection of monopolies Interest and liquidation of internal debt Cost of Government brewery Advances made to merchants Municipal expenses Payments to State contractors
Total
Dollars
11,861
11,740
144,83-1
4,714
845
7,275
119,747
1(14,440
Cents 45 93 88 21 62 98 66
1.501,785
94
£300,357
Dollars
Cents
111,717
78
46,251
72
131,547
54
199,116
23
525,950
49
12,956
83
15,416
69
10,260
244,623
27
91,890
1
7.557
89
8.612
80,182
79
108,344
1,594,427 £318,885
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Costa Eica lias a small foreign debt, amounting to 104,500 dollars, or 20,900/., owing to Peru. All the other liabilities of the state, representing a total of nearly 3,000,000 dollars, or 600,000/., are internal. During the years 1867-69, steps were taken for the liquidation of the public debt.
The area of the republic is calculated to embrace 26,040 English square miles, including some disputed territories on the northern frontier. The population, in a government estimate of the year 1860, is returned at 126,750; but in another semi-official state- ment — in 'Moniteur Universel ' of December 17, 1865 — given as numbering 120,499 souls. Nearly one-third of the inhabitants are aborigines, or ' Indians,' while another third have sprung from a mixture of races. There are also about one thousand free negroes. The population of European descent, many of them pure Spanish blood, dwell mostly in a small district on the Rio Grande, around and not far off the capital of the republic, the city of San Jose.
Costa Kica carries on a considerable trade, chiefly with Great Britain. The value of the total imports and exports in the five years 1864-68 amounted to : —
