1820. Aug. 2

Emancipation Spanish

Summary

Table II "American" Revenue Table. Particulars of it A o

1786 (a)

Reals vellon.

Pounds Sterling

The alcavalas on American production (says Townsend) are omitted, as

are also "some other taxes, of which the Count was not able to procure any

information"

(a) Per Count de Grepi, according to Townsend II. 181. 2d.

Edition, Count de Grepi was Imperial Consul at Cadiz 16 II. 412. "The revenue in America are Townsend's words. Probably on this and every

other occasion, American was employed in a sense coxtensive with that of Ultramarian:

in comparison with than of American the receipt and expedition of all the other parts

of the Ultramarian dominion of Spain being of too small account to be regarded as

worth a distinct notice.