There were in that year 379 licensed _pulque_-shops, yielding a revenue of $65,297 538 retail grocer shops in which liquor is sold by the gill 25,609 8 breweries pay a city tax of 1,697 132 cafes, fondas, and eating-houses pay 4,418 Tax on grain and bread consumed in the city 53,762 Public diversions, $3103; permitted plays (not gambling), $3221 6,324 Tax on canals, $6798; tax on coaches, $20,157; markets, $56,130 83,085 Donation of the proceeds of a bull-fight 830 Gifts, in bread and meat, to the prisons 4,561 A tax of one dollar on the slaughtering of 21,984 beef-cattle 21,984 16,404 calves were slaughtered, paying six shillings tax 12,303 145,040 sheep, at one shilling and sixpence 27,194 9394 pigs paid five shillings tax, or 5,870 42,734 swine, full grown, paid six shillings 32,055 7750 goats and kids, at one shilling and sixpence 1,453 Tax on property entering the city gates 1,878 Licenses to slaughter to individuals 136 The water rents of $20,000 were consumed in repairs. The tax on fish yielded $390 The balance of the revenue consists of certain city properties. _Expenditures._ The heaviest items are for the public prisons $69,863 For the hospitals of the insane 48,000 Lancasterian schools 3,600 Lights and city patrol 52,422 Exhibition of flowers and fruits in November last 1,831 Salaries of school-teachers, and rent of houses for schools 4,812 Religious worship in Hospital of San Hippolito, and for vaccine matter 2,282 Cleaning the streets by night and by day 21,378 Salaries 31,472 Dinners and festivals 151 The city has a debt of $617,978, and has, as a set-off, a claim against the supreme government for $1,700,000 of its funds seized from time to time, and for keeping prisoners.