--------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Expenditures. Amount. | Receipts. Amount. --------------------------------------+----------------------------------- Sovereignty | Taxes and Imposts $ 6,142,500 Expenditure $22,500,808.59 | Custom-Houses 14,705,000 _Local._ | Internal Revenue 1,640,650 General Expenditures 159,605.50 | Lotteries 1,900,500 State-Church, Justice, | State Property 435,000 and Government 1,612,859.44 | Miscellaneous Revenue 1,536,000 Treasury 708,978.51 | ----------- Public Instruction 247,033.02 | Estimates of Total Public Works and | Revenue $26,359,650 Communications 1,036,582.10 | Agriculture, Industry, | and Commerce 108,178.52 | -------------- | $26,374,045.68 | Deduct Amounts not | Specified 17,314.27 | -------------- | Total $26,356,731.41 | Receipts $ 26,359,650.00 Expenses 26,356,731.41 --------------- Surplus $2,918.59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- While the revenues are all derived from the various species of taxation exacted from the people of Cuba, the expenditures are divided into two important classes: those under the head of "Sovereignty Expenses," or expenses of the General Government, which, according to this estimate, aggregate $22,500,808.59, and those which, under the head of "Local Expenses" aggregating $3,873,237.09, constitute the expenditures for the immediate necessities of the Island. In order to obtain a clear view of the possibilities of revenue and the probable future expenses of the Island of Cuba, these receipts and expenditures should be further examined.