REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
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besides, pays 1,562,000 florins, or 130,000/., annually to the clergy. The Archbishop of Munich has a Government salary of'20,000 florins, or 1,667/., and the Archbishop of Wiirzburg, 15,000 florins, or 1,250/. Three of the bishops have an allowance of 10,000 florins, and the other three of 8,000, exclusive of episcopal residences. The Constitu- tion guarantees complete religious liberty to all inhabitants of the State, and Protestants as well as other dissenters enjoy unrestricted freedom of worship, and are eligible to all civil offices and military appointments.
In the year 1861 there were in the kingdom 7,126 schools, with 8,205 teachers. Elementary schools — ' Volksschulen ' — exist in all parishes, and attendance on them is compulsory for all children till the age of fourteen.
Revenue and Expenditure.
The actual public revenue and expenditure of Bavaria for the financial year ending September 30, 1866, were as follows: —
Revenue Florins
£
Direet taxes ......
Indirect taxes .....
State monopolies and establishments State domains .....
Miscellaneous receipts ....
Total net revenue ....
Proceeds of part of a government loan
voted by the Chambers, June 24, 1866
Total revenue
9,975,513
22,690,604
10,755,004
10,283,243
390,722
831,293
1,890,884
896,250
856,937
32,566
54,095,156 16,448,102
4,507,930 1,370,675
70,543,258
5,878,605
Expenditure
Florins
■ &
Interest on the public debt
13.828,657
1,152,388
Civil list
2,985,799
248,817
Council of state and legislature
79,786
6,649
Ministerial departments ....
7,345,732
612.144
Government establishments
9,261,814
771,818
40,894,759
3,407,896
Contributions to provincial funds
626,928
52.244
Public buildings .....
1,018,393
84,866
Pensions of civil servants
761,689
63,474
Miscellaneous expenses ....
957,729
79,811
Extraordinary expenditure for various
purposes ......
Total expenditure ....
512,099
42,675
78,273,385
6,522,782
