FINANCE. The sources of revenue in 1901 were: excise. $20.211,500; direct taxation, $14,500, indirect taxation, $9,027,915; post-olliee, $4,325,750; export and import duties, $4.007,500; pilot dues, $1,358,335; flovernment telegraphs, $936,575: State domains, 8735.000; State lot teries, $271,250; fisheries, $55,000; railroads.$1, 807.560. The expenditures were: national debt, $14.431,070; Department of War, $9,105,180; De partment of Public Works. $12,241,695; Depart ment of Finance, $10,461,715; Department of Marine, $6.9441.705; Department of Interior. $6, 052.815; Department of Justice, 82,015,795; De partment of Colonies, $515.510; Department of Foreign ..\ITairs, $353,505: royal household, $333, 33.i; superior State authorities, $2:83,960; mis cellaneous. $20,830, The total revenue was $56, 971,100 and the expenditures were $01,481,445. The total debt amounted in 1901 to $452.506,435. About $130,000.000 of the revenue of the past half century has been applied to the reduction of the MoxEY, WfluitTs, AND \I):.\st'st•:s. The stand ard coin is the gold piece, containing 6.048 grammes of tine gold. The unit of the silver coinage is the florin. containing 9.-15 grammes of fine silver•. The country has the gold standard. and gold and the silver coitus is below 1873 a re legal tender. The value of
the coins has for years been invariable. The principal coins are the guilder or florin of 100 cents. worth cents in currency, and the gold piece of 10 florins. Metric weights and measures are used.
WI'l.ATTON. The pop111:1I i011 is most dense in the provinces of North and South Holland and Utrecht, which contain almost half of it, al though embracing less than one-fourth of the total area In these provinces are the three largest pities of the country. The annual in crease of population average.. considerably over 1 per cent. (in 1898, 1.41 per cent.; 1S99, 1.2S; in 1900. 1.47). '111e increase is due :ihnust wholly to the excess of births over deaths. The people numbered by the census of 1899 5.103,979. Gf the total population in 1900 2.560.239 mere males and 2,618.807 were females. There were in 1899 52,625 persons of foreign birth living in the Netherlands. of whom 31,865 were tb•rmans, 14, 903 Belgians, 1307 English. and 4550 of other nationalities. The emigration is very .mall, amounting in 1900 to 1899 persons, nearly all of 'Moon went to the United States.
The table of provinces, with areas and popula tions, is as follows: