EARNINGS AND EXPENDITURES OF THE POST-OFFICE AND TELEGRAPH

SERVICES DURING THE LAST TWENTY-SEVEN FISCAL YEARS, FROM
JULY 1, 1869, TO JUNE 30, 1896.

27 years... $22,415,181 84 $19,703,305 05 $14,160,459 49 $ Average

per annum. $ 830,191 92 $ 729,752 04 $ 524,461 46 $ 328,471 14 $ 1,354,653 38 $ 1,236,447 30

531.949 48 $ 1,025,347 29

1,557,296 77 $

481,264 26 $ 2,222,564 83 $1,595,772 28

547.308 67 $ 1,165,150 84 $ 1,885,000 07 622,340 69 2,254,131 59 1,684,756 68 1,169,649 36 $ 3,419,282 43 $ 3,569,756 75

778,648 38 $

584,824 68 $ 1,709,641 21 $1,784,878 38

5,584,009 49 $36,575,641 33 $21,019,604 25

1 The totals and averages per annum in the colums marked " Earnings" and "Total Earnings" only embrace seventeen years, as the returns for the first ten years being very incomplete are not computed.

NUMBER OF PIECES TRANSPORTED BY MEXICAN MAILS FROM 1878-1879 TO 1894-1895.

Printed matter, samples, and parcel post articles in the year 18941895, weighed in grammes, 1,107,755,679.

The notable reduction which appears in the last two years is due to the fact that in the preceding years all correspondence was counted, namely such pieces as were received and sent, and such as came in transit, while in the last two years only are accounted such as were sent.

BANKS.

The following statement contains a list of all the banks existing in Mexico up to December 31, 1895, and their respective condition :

Chihuahua..

May, 1883.

Bank of London and Mexico.. October, 1886.

Chihuahua City.. Mexican Chihuahua Bank....September, 1888.

SITUATION OF THE MEXICAN BANKS ON DECEMBER 31, 1894.

Social capital.... $20,000,000 00 $3,000,000 00 $5,000,000 00 $ 600,000 00 $610,000 00 $600,000 00

Accumulated

1,500,000 00

300,000 00

Unpaid capital.

12,000,000 ∞o

I append four statements of the titles of public lands issued by the Mexican Government. The first one embraces a résumé of the titles issued without cost, and under the act of December 14, 1874, of the Indian town lands held in common, called in Spanish "Ejidos" to the respective inhabitants of the said towns, from 1877 to 1895: the second embraces a résumé of the titles issued in 1894 and 1895 for public lands held by private parties as portions of public land bought from the government but which were in excess of the respective titles, which we call in Spanish "Demacias": the third one embraces a résumé of the titles of public lands issued to private parties in the years 1894

and 1895 and the fourth contains a résumé of the titles issued by the Mexican Government to surveying companies for one-third of the land respectively surveyed by them in 1894 and 1895, according to law and the respective contracts.

FREE TITLES ISSUED UNDER THE ACT OF DECEMBER 14, 1874, OF

THE INDIAN TOWN LANDS TO THE RESPECTIVE

INHABITANTS FROM 1877 TO 1895.

TITLES ISSUED FOR UNWARRANTED POSSESSION BY PRIVATE PARTIES

OF PUBLIC LANDS IN 1894 AND 1895.

TITLES ISSUED IN 1894 AND 1895 TO SURVEYING COMPANIES FOR

ONE-THIRD OF THE LAND SURVEYED BY THEM.

The following official data received by the Census Bureau of the Mexican Government contains the number of schools in the different States of Mexico, supported by the Federal, State, and municipal administrations, and the number of students attending the same. That statement does not include the States of Mexico and Veracruz, which are among those having the largest number of schools and attendance. I also append a statement of the number of schools supported by private parties, with the number of pupils attending the same and their cost; and finally a detailed statement of the public libraries existing in Mexico, and newspapers published in the country, taken from the publication of the Census Bureau in 1895.