| 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 101/2 per cent. in 1795, in which year $24,593,481 were coined in gold and silver at the Mexican mint.
| San Luis Potosi, | 96,000 | — Marks of silver,—which may be estimated at eight dollars and a quarter per mark. |
|---|---|---|
| Zacatecas, | 69,000 | |
| Guanajuato, | 67,000 | |
| Rosario, | 45,000 | |
| Bolaños, | 41,000 | |
| Mexico, | 36,000 | |
| Guadalajara, | 19,000 | |
| Durango, | 33,000 | |
| Zimapan, | 10,000 | |
| Sombrerete, | 7,000 | |
| Chihuahua, | 7,000 |