Ecclesiastical tithes, 30,320 do. subsidies, 4,686 Medias anatas y mesadas id, 50,540 Vacantes mayores y menores, 112,733 Spanish quicksilver, 474,722 German " 42,583 Freight of quicksilver, 2,757 Cards, 148,861 Tobacco, 3,927,822 4 per cent. of salary of employés, 25,632 ----------- Gross income, $15,693,895 From this should be deducted for salaries and} expenses of administration, $596,260} 1,244,199 For donations received this year, but which } should not be counted as income, $647,939} ----------- Net income, $14,449,696 =========== 2d. EXPENSES IN THE YEAR 1809. Expenses of fortification, $800,000 Pay of army, veteran troops, arsenal of San Blas,} powder factories and other expenses, } $3,000,000 Pay of Oidores, and other persons employed in judicial} functions and measures for the conversion of } 250,000 the Indians, } Pensions, 200,000 Hospital expenses, repairs of factories, 400,800 Return of imposts, 1,496,000 ---------- $6,146,800 Amount of Income, $14,449,696 " " Expenses, 6,146,800 ----------- Balance, $8,302,896 This was then the clear income of Mexico in the year 1809. The same amount may be considered as the usual yearly revenue from the close of the eighteenth century, and if we deduct a half of this sum as being afterwards expended on this side of the Atlantic, it may be calculated that about four millions of dollars were transmitted to Spain annually. 3d. MINERAL PRODUCTIONS. In order to judge what regions of New Spain were most productive in mineral wealth and their relative productiveness, we will insert the value of the royal dues upon silver, amounting in all to the rate of 10-1/2 _per cent._ in 1795, in which year $24,593,481 were coined in gold and silver at the Mexican mint.