following the rise of prices is provided for separately but naturally falls in part 
under the expenses of each government department. 
Revenue Expenditure 
— Civil list onder To Ts 200,000 
: Government representation expen- 
Estimated surplus for preceding year 11,500,000 = ses, printing, raise in salaries be 
Direct taxes and excises...,....... 30,610,000 cause of increase of cost of living, 
BC a 1,032,150 
Customs ........................ 23,638,000 Chamber "of Deputies <...... 0... 01 500,000 
Registration and domains......... 34,627,153 State Council... cui vii vi vile 68,000 
Post, telegrarh land felepbone.....Jliressnono ISIE oi oooiesrnrnnns eri) 2t300 
Prisons and hospitals .........%" 814,000 Justice gle in os 3.547.500 
oo orps o endarmes and volunteers 2,620,000 
Various other revenues............ 5,847,603 Department of accounts oo ro: 130.500 
= = Generali revenue: ........... 00... 712,728 
Cults (Catholic, Protestant, Israelite 
Grand total........ 121,786,756 faiths) toil a ER A a 2,322,362 
Direct taxes, excises and roll tax... 6,089,272 
Registration and domains ........ 865,200 
: . Customs)... os wlan Li Sarin a 204,100 
Revenue and Expenditure Applying Land credit and savings banks... .. 495,612 
to no particular fiscal year. Pensions... Ll os are 8,773,000 
Publics Works... 3, 04 ie 16,194,753 
: State domain... .. 0 200 Ee 60,000 
A) Revenue : VIII Le ride we 119,000 
: : Commercial enterprises ...... ..... 2,500,000 
Revenue resulting 5 from ‘economic Municipal: works ,..... 0 1,002,070 
union with Belgium............. 20,400,000 Public Debt .............. .. . 23,363,732 
District Commissariats, aid funds for 
; : municipal functionaries ......... 767,000 
B) Expenditure : Administration of forests and irriga- 
: : : tomy tu. TEE 488,500 
Bapenditure Fesulving from economic Sanitary <'Service .... 00a hl] 507,500 
union with Belgium.............. 5,850,000 Thermal establishment of Mondorf- 
: : EERE, sl or Hii eet ea 242,000 
Reimbursement of advances received Post, Telegraph, Telephone services 7,002 440 
ontidebtiti. oul... oo evs SBR Oo, 000 Commission of Agriculture. Service, 
i : administration "i. ...... San lo Lk 282,011 
Reimbursement to foreign offices by Agriculture, — divers Branches 
the post, telegraph, and telephone (education, cattle rearing, ameliora- 
; HonSNete. Ly, 0, 0). JiR 1,204,617 
jervices [saan s rsdn 2,844,240 SOCIRLLWOTE us oes Siar re 2.215.83¢ 
Loan, interest, and amortization aris- Commerce and Industry .......... 325,557 
: : 3 Education) 0 Lol, LI5E Da alee 12,506,423 
Ine. from fhe fonstpuction Ad jx Science and Arts, vied. nme] 160,550 
ploitation of railroads........... 18,300,429 Prisons, hospitals, benevolent societies 3,989,900 
: : Police, general and administrative, . 213,000 
Accident and old age insurance... 500.000 Unforeseen expenditure ...... _.. 11,183,172 
Payments on budgets of precedent 
NV OaLS  o eie i ni dr 3,575,987 
_ Works of public utility ....... 6.601,220 
Grand . total... . 50,744,669 Grand total.......... 121,620,477 
References: N° 28. Chambre des Députés. Projet de loi concernant le Budget des 
receltes et des dépenses de I'Etat pour I'exercice 1925; Grand-Duché de Luxembourg, Publi- 
cation de I'Office de Statistique, Annuaire Officiel, 1925. 
B. — Import and Export Statistics. (See under Belgium) 
NETHERLANDS 
A. — Budgetary Situation 
Year Revenue Expenditure Balance 
(in florins) 
1922. Lana 633,809,952 1,082,893,440 — 449,083,488 
1923... 8h nhs 626,766,847 777,241,835 — 150,474,988 
1924.5 Gia h band 599,421,652 740,114,243 — 140,692,591 
1925. 0 saa ent 612.909,920 691.447.741 + 78,537.821