For the payment of the bonds of the Interior, a sinking-fund is provided, consisting of fifteen per cent of the duties on imports, the sums received for exemption from military service, etc. The average duties on imports are between fifty-five and sixty per cent _ad valorem_. The income of the republic during the year 1882 was: DIRECT TAXES. 3% on real estate $103,886.05 Road tax 34,830.85 Military tax 13,925.17 Abated taxes 4,132.56 ---------- $156,224.63 INDIRECT TAXES. Duties on imports $1,698,469.93 Duties on exports 66,685.36 Harbor dues 3,960.22 Stamped paper and stamps 114,221.57 Impost on native flour 47,198.19 Impost on salt 27.454.58 Impost on legacies 11,514.06 Beneficio de Reses 99,964.59 5% on transfers of real estate 53,530.42 ------------- 2,122,998.92 Tax for higher education $10,127.87 Tax for municipios 10,678.62 Tax for police in the capital 113,296.13 Tax for hospitals 119,507.26 Telegraphs 55,575.96 Mails 25,687.95 Mint 19,518.51 Fondos judiciales 6,513.19 ----------- 360,905.49 Excise on liquors $1,266,042.43 Excise on tobacco 346,263.15 Excise on gunpowder and saltpetre 23,994.31 ------------- 1,636,299.89 Various income 135,457.44 Contracts, etc. (anticipation of taxes) 2,030,033.01 ------------- $6,441,919.38 Of the expenses of the Government for the same fiscal period, it will be seen from the following abstract that the army expenses form more than a sixth of the entire sum, even in a time of peace. EXPENSES OF ADMINISTRATION. Department of the Interior $167,349.25 ” Treasury 208,872.45 ” War 1,164,521.37 ” Justice 723,746.93 ” Public Instruction 252,891.62 ” Foreign Affairs 80,850.11 ------------ $2,598,231.73 GENERAL EXPENSES.