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MEXICO IN 1827.
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the Capital alone. There were only nine bishops, including the Primate, the See of Chiapa not being then considered as annexed to Mexico. Their revenues were supposed to be:—
Dollars | |
Those of the Archbishop of Mexico | 130,000 |
Of the Bishop of La Puebla | 110,000 |
Valladolid | 100,000 |
Guadalajara | 90,000 |
Durango | 35,000 |
Monterey | 30,000 |
Yucatan | 20,000 |
Oaxaca | 18,000 |
Sonora | 6,000 |
———— | |
Total | 439,000 |
This income was produced, principally, by that portion of the tithes, which was destined for the subsistence of the Clergy. The annual average amount of these, (upon a term of ten years given by Humboldt) appears to have been, in the year 1790:—
In | Dollars | Reals. |
Mexico | 708,287 | 7 |
La Puebla | 350,888 | 3 |
Valladolid | 323,940 | |
Oaxaca | 86,323 | 5 |
Guadalajara | 257,910 | 6 |
Durango | 108,031 | 3 |
————— | —— | |
Total | 1,835,382 |