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CHAPTER XXXIV

of city revenue of 1851.

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 gill25,609
8 breweries pay a city tax of1,697
132 cafés, fondas, and eating-houses pay4,418
Tax on grain and bread consumed in the city53,762
Public diversions, $3103; permitted plays (not gambling), $32216,324
Tax on canals, $6798; tax on coaches, $20,157; markets, $56,13083,085
Donation of the proceeds of a bull-fight830
Gifts, in bread and meat, to the prisons4,561
A tax of one dollar on the slaughtering of 21,984 beef-cattle21,984
16,404 calves were slaughtered, paying six shillings tax12,303
145,040 sheep, at one shilling and sixpence27,194
9394 pigs paid five shillings tax, or5,870
42,734 swine, full grown, paid six shillings32,055
7750 goats and kids, at one shilling and sixpence1,453
Tax on property entering the city gates1,878
Licenses to slaughter to individuals136
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 insane48,000
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