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nervousness. At any rate, all companies organized under its charters agree to be strictly Mexican, and to renounce all rights and exemptions as foreigners.
"NOT HERE FOR THEIR HEALTH."
There is no great vacant public
domain, as with us, and the
Government has not aided the new
enterprises with land grants. Up
to a recent period, however, it has
attached to each concession a cash
subsidy of $10,000 to $15,000 a
mile. Both the Central and National
are thus subsidized. In order that the burden may not fall too heavily upon an exchequer always weak, the payments are made to depend upon the pledge of six
per cent, in the one case, and four in the other, of receipts at the custom-houses. Certificates for the several
