Value of Land
Manila-Dagupan Railway.
| First Section—Manila to San Fernando. | |
| First sub-section, | Manila to Polo. |
| Second sub-section, | Polo to Guiguinto. |
| Third sub-section, | Guiguinto to Calumpit. |
| Fourth sub-section, | Calumpit to San Fernando. |
| Second Section—San Fernando to Tarlac. | |
| First sub-section, | San Fernando to Angeles. |
| Second sub-section, | Angeles to Bamban. |
| Third sub-section, | Bamban to Capas. |
| Fourth sub-section, | Capas to Tarlac. |
| Third Section—Tarlac to Dagupan. | |
| First sub-section, | Tarlac to Panique. |
| Second sub-section, | Panique to Moncada. |
| Third sub-section, | Moncada to Bayambang. |
| Fourth sub-section, | Bayambang to San Carlos. |
| Fifth sub-section, | San Carlos to Dagupan. |
An Estimate of the Population of the Philippines in 1890
The above is taken from a pamphlet called ‘Filipinas’ Fundamental Problem,’ by a Spaniard long resident in those islands, published in Madrid, 1891, by D. Luis Aguado. The pamphlet itself is a violent attack on Rizal and those who sympathised with him, and holds out as the only remedy against insurrection the encouragement of Spanish immigration on an extensive scale.
Estimate of Philippine Income and Expenditure, 1896–97.
| $ | |
|---|---|
| Direct Taxes— | |
| Property tax, $140,280; industrial and commercial tax, $1,400,700; cédulas personales, 1$5,600,000; capitation tax on Chinese, $510,190; acknowledgment of vassalage from outlaws and heathen, $20,000; tax of 10 per cent. on railway fares, $32,000; various surtaxes, $63,000; tax of 10 per cent. on the pay of employés paid by local funds, $80,000; tax of 10 per cent. on the pay of employés paid by the State, $650,000 | 8,496,170 |
| Custom House— | |
| Imports, $3,600,000; exports, 2$1,292,550; loading tax, $410,000; unloading, $570,000; trans-shipment, $1000; warehousing, $4000; fines, surtaxes, etc., $22,000; tax on consumable goods, 3$301,000 | 6,200,550 |
| Monopoly— | |
| Opium contract (farmed out)4 | 576,000 |
| Stamps— | |
| Stamped paper, do. for fines, for bills of exchange, post office stamps, patent medicine stamps, stamps for telegrams, receipts, signatures, passports, less $200,000 paid to Bolmao and Hong Kong Cable Co., etc. | 646,000 |
| Lottery— | |
| Profits of the Manila lottery, licenses for raffles, etc. | 1,000,000 |
| Crown Property— | |
| Rents of mining claims, $2000; royalties on forest produce, $170,000; sale of Crown lands, of buildings, and fines | 257,000 |
| Miscellaneous— | |
| Unexpended balances, $50,000; produce of convict labour, $4000; sale of buildings and stores of War Department and Navy, $3800; profits on coining money, $200,000; sundry receipts, $40,500 | 298,300 |
| Total | 5$17,474,020 |
| $ | |
|---|---|
| General charges— | |
| Ministry of the Colonies, Court of Audit, expenses of Fernando Po, civil, military and naval pensions, interest on savings bank deposits, passages of Government employés | 1,507,900 |
| State— | |
| Diplomatic and consular expenses | 74,000 |
| Grace and Justice— | |
| Courts of Justice, register of property, gaols, the clergy, missionaries, public worship, passages of missionaries, college for missionaries | 1,896,277 |
| Army— | |
| Pay and allowances, provisions, forage, clothing, war-like stores, invalids, orphans, extraordinary credit for the campaign in Mindanao ($624,680) | 6,042,442 |
| Treasury— | |
| Central administration, mint at Manila, provincial administration, pay and allowances of corps of carbineers (custom house guards), cost of selling stamped paper, of collecting taxes, of working the lottery | 1,393,184 |
| Navy— | |
| Pay and allowances, victualling and clothing, material for the station, for the squadron, material for the arsenal ($1,260,652) | 3,566,528 |
| Civil Service— | |
| Colonial Secretary (pay and allowances), Governor-General, civil governors, political and military governors, council of administration, the Guardia Civil, post office, telegraph, health officers of ports | 2,198,350 |
| Education and public works— | |
| Technical schools, nautical do. of drawing, painting, sculpture and engraving, university, normal school, observatory of Manila ($20,000 per annum), pay and allowances of engineers and assistants of public works, of the woods and forests, of mines, and of the model farms | 615,198 |
| Total | 17,293,879 |
N.B.—Expenditure on Army and Navy $9,608,970, considerably more than half the total revenue.
Value of Land.
Official valuation of land required for the construction of the Manila-Dagupan Railway. The expropriation commenced in 1888 and continued up to end of 1892, and the prices paid were far in excess of estimate.
| First Section. | Second Section. | Third Section. | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-section | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 1. | 2. | 3. | 4. | 5. |
| From kil. | 0 | 13.8 | 29.2 | 45.8 | 60.7 | 75.5 | 90.5 | 107.3 | 116.5 | 134.6 | 149.2 | 162.9 | 179.3 |
| To kil. | 13.8 | 29.2 | 45.8 | 60.7 | 75.5 | 90.5 | 107.3 | 116.5 | 134.6 | 149.2 | 162.9 | 179.3 | 192.3 |
| $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | |
| Water meadows or irrigated rice land | 480 | 240 | 240 | 240 | 220 | 200 | 120 | 100 | 88 | 80 | 100 | 140 | 180 |
| Rice lands (dry), 1st class | 200 | 192 | 180 | 168 | 120 | 108 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 32 | 48 | 72 | 80 |
| Rice lands (dry), 2nd class | 168 | 160 | 160 | 152 | 72 | 60 | 24 | 24 | 24 | 16 | 28 | 40 | 44 |
| Cane fields, 1st class | 272 | 240 | 260 | 100 | 80 | 60 | 28 | 20 | 20 | 16 | 32 | 40 | 48 |
| Cane fields, 2nd class | 200 | 160 | 192 | 80 | 56 | 40 | 20 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 20 | 28 | 32 |
| Stony land near the sea | 140 | 120 | |||||||||||
| Buyo (betel) plantations | 240 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 72 | 72 |
| Nipa palm groves | 88 | 80 | 72 | 60 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 24 |
| Mangrove swamp | 76 | 60 | 48 | 32 | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 16 |
| Gardens and building lots | 200 | 180 | 180 | 160 | 100 | 88 | 32 | 28 | 28 | 20 | 32 | 48 | 56 |
| Forest land | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 10 | 6.4 | 4 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 4 | 4 | |
| Bush land | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 8 | 4.8 | 2.4 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 2.4 | ||
| Pasture | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | .. | 12 | 10 | |||||
Price is given in Mexican dollars per acre.
Notes
1
The total receipts from this tax are $7,000,000 The local funds receive 20 per cent., say $1,400,000 Remainder $5,600,000
2 See Table of dues on Exports.
3 See Table of this tax.
4 In August 1900 the Straits Settlements Government received offers for the opium and spirit farms in Singapore, Penang and Malacca, for three years from January 7th, 1901, amounting to $385,000 per month.
5 In 1886–87 the revenue only amounted to $9,324,974; the Army estimates for 1888 were $3,918,760, the Navy $2,573,776. If to the revenue of 1896–97 we add the amount paid over to local funds, the total will be double the revenue raised ten years before.