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CHAPTER IX.
The Federal budget — Receipts and expenditures — Principal sources of national revenue — Foreign commerce — Coinage of the Mexican mints — Imports and exports — The United States the largest customer for Mexican products — Silver monometallism in Mexico — Its inconveniences and abandonment — Introduction of paper money — Sanitary conditions of Mexico — Terrible mortality of the cities of Mexico and Vera Cruz.
The Federal budget, in respect to expenditures for the fiscal year 1886-'87, as reported by President Diaz to the Mexican Chamber of Deputies, was as follows:
| Congress. | $1,052,144 |
| Executive Department. | 49,251 |
| Judiciary. | 434,892 |
| Ministry of Foreign Affairs. | 419,828 |
| Ministry of Interior. | 3,539,364 |
| Ministry of Justice. | 1,333,696 |
| Ministry of Public Works. | 4,711,771 |
| Ministry of Finance. | 12,004,270 |
| Ministry of War and Navy. | 12,464,500 |
| Total. | $36,009,716 |
The estimates of receipts were uncertain. It was hoped, if business recovered, that they would reach $33,000,000; and the Government promised
