REVENUE AND EXPENDITURE.
443
Branches of Expenditure
Interest and Sinking Fund of National Debt
Expense of General Administration : — National council State
Federal „ Federal chancery Federal tribunal Pensions .
Total
Departments Political Interior
War .
Finance
Trade and customs
Justice and police
Special Administration Army Customs Post . Telegraph . Gunpowder Percussion caps Mint .
Polytechnic school Government stud Military Academy at Thun Laboratory at Thun .
Total
Total
Miscellaneous Expenses
Total Expenditure •!
Francs 709,252
1868
82,032 4,017
60,022
155.522
8,314
25,888
335,795
168,948
1,040,984
19,915
55,795
7,H8
19,309
1,312,069
2,384,347
3,493,869
8,770,428
748,976
537,121
77,681
325,649 170.203 148,651
552,877
6,069
19,572,987 782,919
73,105
5,714
61,000
157,555
6.275
19,701
323,350
185,515
76.3.604
19,917
54.647
4,495
10,607
1,040,785
2.442,011
3,467,702
8,814,716
921,182
575,249
176.156
20.000
318.400
102.178
125,329
1,070,512
17,209,802 ] 18,033,435
6.214
20,343.580 813,743
The public debt of the republic amounted, at the commencement of 1869, to 15,299,481 francs, or 611,979/., as a set-off against which there was a so-called ' federal fortune,' or property belonaino- to the state, valued at 21,904,690 francs, or 876,187/.
The various cantons of Switzerland have, as their own local administrations, so their own budgets, and, in all cases but two, their own debts. The following table gives the revenue, expenditure, and debt of the twenty-two cantons, after the latest returns : —
