The number of persons convicted of crime in the years 1891-95 was : —
Years
Persons Convicted
Males
Females
Total
1891 ||13,778 ||3,372 ||17,150 1892 ||13,514 ||3,355 ||16,869 1893 ||14,806 ||3,800 ||18,606 1894 ||13,078 ||3,656 ||16,734 1895 ||14,588 ||3,892 ||18,480 |}
Finance.
The revenue and expenditure for six years were : —
Years
Revenue
Expenditure
Years
Revenue
Expenditure
Milreis Milreis
1891-92||38,643,209||54,947,083 1892-93||41,875,869||48,013,398 1893-94||46,104,788||46,461,638 1894-95||46,519,932||48,602,870 1895-96||53,179,020||54,591,648 1896-97||50,711,536||57,516,358
For the year 1897-98 the revenue was estimated at 55,105,878 milreis, and the expenditure at 55,034,844 milreis ; for 1898-99, revenue, 52,805,942 milreis; expenditure, 52,655,037 milreis.
The following are the estimates for 1899-1900 : —
Sources of Revenue Direct taxes . Registration and Stamps Indirect taxes. Additional taxes National property
sundries Receipts d'ordre
Total ordinary . Extraordinary
and
Milreis 11,891,601
5,277,500 24,301,830
1,122,200
4,674,540 3,505,910
50,773,581 1,600,000
Total . Deficit .
52,373,581 1,545,715
Branches of Expenditure Civil list, Cortes, and Various||
Consolidated debt .
Loss on exchange .
Ministry of Finance
,, ,, Interior
9,
18,
3, 2,
Milreis
755,918 124,354 500,000 702,007 400,594 ,, ,, Justice, &c, 1, 002,578 ,, ,, War||5, 973,128 ,, ,, Marine and Colonies||4,272,054 ,, ,, Foreign Affairs||346,097 ,, ,, PublicWorks. &c. . ||5,460,990 Deposits || 69,337
Total ordinary ||51,607,057 Extraordinary ||2,312,239
Total ||53,919,296
The following are statistics of the Portuguese National Debt, showing its amount at various periods : —
