The Federal Government’s chief revenues are derived from import taxes, impartially placed upon entries into all the States; income of the States is mainly derived from export dues, while municipalities get revenues from imposts upon professions and industries, and manage sometimes to get a share in export dues. The Acre Territory, purchased by the Brazilian Government from Bolivia in 1903, is the only part of Brazil paying export as well as import dues to the Federal authorities, this contribution coming from rubber. To help raise new revenues, _impostos do consumo_ (excise) have been increased on articles consumed in the country, the addition to the burden of the retailer and the consumer himself raising some outcry, as has also the suggestion to put on railway freight imposts. The States, exporting larger quantities of goods than normally, are not so badly placed as the Federal Government, but that they look upon the matter of raising income from produce exported with different eyes in different parts of the republic is shown by a look at some of the export tax figures for 1922; these figures are not constant, as the _pauta_ is frequently changed by the officials of exporting points in response to conditions in international markets: Coffee, the premier export of Brazil, pays to S. Paulo an export tax of 9 per cent, plus five francs a bag for Valorization service; in Minas it pays 8½, plus five francs a bag, used for administrative purposes; Bahia coffee pays 10 per cent of its value, Pernambuco 4.8, Paraná 30 per cent, Santa Catharina 8, Espirito Santo 12½. Cacao pays in Bahia 14 per cent of its value; in Amazonas 5 per cent; in Pará 5 per cent; in Maranhão 4 per cent. [Illustration: Fishing Boats of North Brazil. ] [Illustration: Rocks at Guarujá, near Santos. ] [Illustration: Bertioga, the Old Entrance to Santos. ] [Illustration: Cantareira Water Supply, São Paulo. ] Sugar pays in Pernambuco, the principal producing state, 8 per cent, with additional charges bringing this to nearly 10 per cent for interstate, and 12 per cent for foreign, exports; in Bahia, 4 per cent; Alagôas, 7.8; Paraná, 4.4; Rio sugar pays 2½ to the State and 2 per cent to the municipality of Campos. Rubber pays 15 per cent of its value in Amazonas, or half of the amount paid in the palmy days of the industry; Pará charges 18 per cent; the Acre, 6 per cent; Matto Grosso, 10 per cent. Cotton pays 11 per cent in Pernambuco, nearly 12 in Alagôas, 8 per cent in Bahia. Hides pay 20 per cent in Amazonas; Maranhão, two cents a kilo; Pernambuco, 18 per cent; Alagôas, 13 per cent; Bahia, 15 per cent; Paraná, and Santa Catharina, 10 per cent; Rio Grande do Sul, 10.5; Matto Grosso, 6 per cent. Tobacco pays a variety of dues, ranging from 12 per cent in Bahia, the chief exporting point, to 4 per cent in Pernambuco and the southern States. Matte pays 3.6 in Rio Grande, 46 reis a kilo in Paraná and 20 reis a kilo in Santa Catharina.