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MEXICO IN 1827.
397
| Dollars. | |
| in 1825, they may be taken, as a minimum, at | 11,500,000 |
| and in 1826, at | 13,000,000 |
adding something less than one seventh to the actual receipts of the ten months, included in Mr. Esteva's memoir of 1827, in lieu of the fifth, which is there given as the produce of the two months, the accounts for which had not been made up.
| During the same period, the estimates of expenditure have been reduced, from | 17,986,674 dollars |
| or, with the interest on the foreign loans, not included above, | 2,109,600 |
| ———— | |
| 20,096,274 |
to 13,363,098 dollars: so that even allowing one million of dollars over and above Mr. Esteva's estimate, for expenses in the War Department, still, a saving of nearly six millions of dollars will have been effected in the course of four years: viz.
| Dollars. | |
| Estimates for 1827, including interest on loans | 13,363,098 |
| Add one million for War Department | 14,363,098 |
| Estimates for 1825, With Dividends on loan | 20,096,274 |
| ————— | |
| Saving in 1827 | 5,733,176 |
| ————— |
This is a result, which ought to afford more satisfaction to those whose interests have been affected
