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			Dollars.	Rials.
Common Branches			462,944	1½
Deduct
Alcavalas	157,681	5
Gunpowder	3,872	1
			161,553	6
					301,390	3½
Particular Branches			313,330	2
Deduct; Tobacco			256,975	2
					56,355
				Total	357,355	3½

If therefore, as it is fair to expect, the country shall begin to feel the benefit of the liberal institutions it has adopted with regard to trade and other objects likely to conduce to its advancement, its revenue must naturally increase, and it may be reasonably presumed that the above sum of 357,745d. 3½r. which was collected by the old régime is not greater than what may be expected to be obtained by the several federal states under their own dispositions of government; and, should it be the case, the same might, perhaps, be fully adequate to the expenses which they