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The Southwestern Historical Quarterly
APPENDIX A
The following table giving the revenues of the Republic will
show the importance of the tariff in the fiscal system.208
Direct Land and Miscel-
Year. Taxes. Customs. Licenses. Land Dues laneous. Total.
1836-1838.. $ 100,455$ 133 649 $ 21,123 $ 5,552 $ 260,780
1839. 122,160 65,621 187,791
1840. 53,180 164,789 $ 16,922 218,250 141 453,235
1841.. . 179,503 151,990 42,686 68,025 429 442,635
1842-1844.. 80,335 360, 177 16,503 502 457,518
1844-1846.. 27,561 340,506 15,140 1,815 385,023
Totals . $ 440,984 $1,273,280 $ 91,251 $ 307,398 $ 74,060 $2,186,982
NET REVENUE FROM EACH DISTRICT FOR THE PERIOD INDICATED.
To Sept. Nine months to Year ending Fifteen
District. 30, 1838. Oct. 31, 1842. July 31, 1844. months
following.
Galveston $ 140,110 77 $ 65,103 46 $ 141,290 96 $ 256,401 19
Brazos. 38,076 00 6,586 10 1,928 85 7,742 56
Matagorda.. 42,346 74 4,721 20 19,639 90 50,607 21
Aransas.. 1,184 72 7,833 01
Sabine 123 30 106 53 527 68 5,026 60
San Augustine 37,477 02 3,431 56 7,077 12 14,120 20
Red River..... 6,998 64 6,110 92 7,274 09
Soda Lake ...... 866 54
Totals .. $ 278,134 56 $ 86,973 49 $ 177,860 85 $ 349,871 40
The apparent discrepancy in returns as shown in the first and
second tables is explained by the fact that the first represents the
receipts actually paid into the treasury, while the second repre-
sents the returns reported by collectors. Some of this was bonded
and some of it was secured in warehouses.APPENDIX B
IMPORTS INTO THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS.
From September, 1835, to September, 1838
From September, 1838, to September, 1839
From September, 1839, to December, 1840........
From December, 1840, to March, 1841..
From March, 1841, to July, 1842.. .$ 1,740,376787
1,506,897 67
1,378,568 98
291,671 87
No returns20"Miller, A Financial History of Texas, 391; Gouge, The Fiscal His-
tory of Temas, 270; reports of secretaries of the treasury, Telegraph and
Texas Register, November 17, 1838, December 18, 1839, October 6, 1841,
August 4, 1841, February 1, 1843, January 8, 1845; Third Congress,
House Journal, ap. 406; First Legislature, House Journal, ap. 24. These
references comprise the total available sources for the revenue of the
Republic. Unless a different reference is necessary, these will serve as
authority for the tables that follow.
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