DEFENCE — PRODUCTION AND INDUSTRY
1129
Revenue
Dollars
Expenditure
Dollars
Customs ....
10,061,487
Legislature ....
341,114
Property tax
1,831,689
Presidency ....
67,242
Trade licences
890,650
Ministry Foreign Affairs .
131,968
Factorj' taxes
470,595
,, Government
2,365,086
Tobacco tax
463,936
,, Finance
961,160 '■
Instruction receipts
427,457
,, Foments
1,124,672
Stamped paper .
369,668
,, War and Marine .
1,918,031 !
Bank protits
350,000
Public Debt
5,640,743 1
Post and telegraph
260,000
Railway guarantees .
945,636
Other receipts
848,064
Pensions ....
•1,416,407
Various .... Total ....
887,173
Total .
15,973,546
15,799,231 !
The municipality of Montevideo has its own Budget, and is not included in these estimates. The amount of the public debt on December 31, 1897. is officially stated as follows :
Dollars
External 100,490,512
International 4,327,575
Internal 15,947,010
Total 120,765,097
In October, 1898, the debt was increased by 7,500,000 dollars, bringing the total up to 128,265,097 dollars.
According to the Report of the Committee of the Council of Foreign Bond- holders, the amount of the foreign debt outstanding in the middle of 1898 was 21,380,960^.
The total value of the real property of the Republic in 1896 was 280,945,721 dollars. Of this the department of Montevideo is credited with 128,809,060 dollars, the next richest provinces being Paysandu, Soriano, and Salto with 14,831,178 and 12,872,480 dollars respectively.
Defence.
The permanent army of Uruguay is officially reported to consist of 233 officers and 3,222 men, including 4 battalions of infantry, 4 regiments of cavalry, 1 of artillery. The soldiers are armed with Remington rifles, and there are 67 pieces of artillery. There is besides an armed police force of 3,200 men. The national guard numbers about 20,000. In recent years there has been an excessive expenditure for the maintenance of an increased military force. Uruguay has three gunboats and one small steamer, with a complement of about 184 officers and men.
Production and Industry.
The rearing of cattle and sheep is the chief industry of Uruguay. The pastoral establishments in 1896, according to declarations made for fiscal pur- poses, contained 5,881,402 head of cattle, 392,246 horses, 15,589 mules, and 16,397,484 sheep. The total value of the flocks and herds in Uruguay is estimated at 73,038,000 dollars. In Uruguay and Montevideo in 1896, 703,900 ; in 1897, 670,900 head of cattle were slaughtered. In 1897 the wool
