The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1848-01-29
The revenue in ls44 has, therefore.

The revenue in le44 has therefore
These amounts are to be deducted becsu,. tn. r,t
one is not revenue it being noted merely pour me
mone-the second and third because. being dedicated
to certain payments they have entered the Trea
sury the fourth because it is the produce of loans
which have been paid out of the house reve-
nqe; and the NTH escause it has to be debed again
We have entered into these details to give idea of the
very singular way OF keeping accounts which has been
adopted in Mexico We do not, however, admit this
way of keeping accounts for it would be impossible to
know the exact amount Of revenues collected and va
maize the amount thus
The revenue amounted to. .S2j, 905 3is liz
The only amounts
which will ad-
mit ought to be
deducted are the
following
Details No. g. viz i'm
sginsry income. S623 ,439
Details No 6, already
paid, OF the custom
house revenues. IS 240,747 7
Details No 7, credited
and not debted. .2,4976i 3 l $936i,s3s o O
Thus the real total revenues, in IsaA
We do not admit that the two sum, Of sss als ans
OF s3Iss0 are 20 be deducted from the revenues
credit they have entered the Treasury bat have
been paid direct to the creditors Wha il cannot bs
denied thet they have been raised in the country and
form, therefore, part Of the revenues.
IL comparison Is made between the net produce of
revenues IN isi and an average Of those collected du
think it fair TO infer that the annual he
estimated at no less than SI6 900.
The net produce Of the custom houses during a De
ROO OF u years amount to $7035979S Az averaging
So59o3a5 IL is therefore clear that of reve
nue. mas been 50 productive that derived from
reign commerce. and the duties to which it subjected
put the national Treasury has received
more than one half or perhaps more than one
third OF the duties which might have been
collected under better system Of mposs
by well selected and veil behaved ocershere contra
band is the bane both Of trade and revenue and TO-
reign merchants be pitisd where their
ponds not upon what may be called the science Of
m.rce but adroitness in the arts of evasion or What
reports OF the different ministers Of finance from 1872
downwarde, We mud them all bewailing the enormous
smuggling that prevailed every where and the almoet
universal corruption OF their own funetionsres but
through the active and efficient measures
Dy the executive and the legislature Of the time Yet
tue evil seems to have grown from year. gaining
fresh vgor from the taken by the government
Tor It's annihistion Proofs Of what state are to be
found In every report and in the admissions Of all the
ministers who have succe7sively administered the fnan
ciai ahars OF the country The same depIedaory sys
tenn can be traced in all tho branches of public
leaving the conclusion that the revenues are by no
means as large as they ought to be-
Inc foregoing information having proved that the
revenues OF Mexico cannot be Estimated ut less than
$4,000 00e TO Sl7 900 600 per um we shall examine
now what they might amount to In case better admin.
isrstion and collection Of them should be on
OF the occupation OF the country the armies
Of the United States
The report then goes to state that II would be bet
ter 10 eDdeayor 10 raise the by the least often
siye mode 20 the Inhabitants, but ut the time as
ssrtinr that great imposts which In the United
States would be considered vexatous could be raised
Ia Mexico without any trouble Under O good and
faithful administration afordng protection to all the
following deductions are drawn, as to the probable
revenue
IMPORT RpvpruIs COLLECTED ~ THE srAIoRrs
JKoNruR CUSTOM HoItEs.
Under the new American tsrin the amount VIII not