FINANCE
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The budget estimates for the year 1899 give the soUrces of revenue and branches of expenditure as follows : —
Revenue. Ordinary reveniio : Florins
State debts . . 1,502,2-11 'MinistYy ad latits . 1,000
,, of the Interior 3,641,888 ,, Finance . 329,717,648 ,, Commerce 126,342,382 „ ,, Agriculture 18,091,211 ,, ,, Instruction and Public Worship 1,820,667 Ministry of Justice . 991,956
Ministry of National Defence .
Florins
355,044
Total of ordinary revenue . . 482,464,037 Transitory revenue . 20,839,566
Grand total .[503,303,603
Expenditure.
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Ordinary expenditure : Florins
Florins j
Civil list. . . 4,650,000
Minister-Presidency .
482,815 1
1 Cabinet chancery . 78,307
Ministry ad lattos
74,236 !
Diet . . . 1,783,966
,, for Croatia .
44,530 !
Quota of common ex-
,, of the Interior
19,600,367 i
penditure . . 28,318,076
,, of Finance .
88,487,768 1
Pensions chargeable on
,, of Commerce
86,860,961
the common exchequer 23, 203
, , of Agriculture
19,769,585
Pensions (Hungary) . 9,044,927
,, of Instruction
National debt . . 128,913,726
and Public Worship
13,111,264
Debts of guaranteed
Ministry of Justice .
16,694,141
railways now taken
,, of National
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over by the State . 13,671,340
Defence .
16,450,404
Guaranteed railway
interests . . 293,028
Total of ordinary
Other debts . . 2,947,313
expenses .
460,005,399
1 Administration ofCroatia8,291,790
Transitory expenditure
15,869,462
Accountant-General's
Investments, total of .
27,389,585
office . . . 153,135 Administration of Courts 260,517
.
Total .
503,264,446
This shows a surplus of 39,157 florins. The estimates of the previous year were: — Revenue, 498,775,291 florins; expenditure, 498,726,570 florins; surplus, 48,721 florins.
The following table shows the growth of the del)t of Hungary in thousands of florins : —
1890 1893
1894 1895
1896
1897
Consolidated debt Annuities . Treasury bonds . Debts of various Min- istries . Arrears outstanding .
Total
841,359
928.041
13,387
24,084 123,244
854,906
1,196,180
13,039
26,202 205,601
1,061.583
1,049,695
12,061
33,508 175,142
1,061,583
1,068,265
11,413
37,650 214,911
1,061,583
1,063,742
17,200
52,360 244,785
1,089,033
1,058,740
14,891
65,214 250,067
1,030,115
2,295,928
2,331,989
2,393,822
' 2,439,670
2,477,045
