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JAPAN,
EXPENDITURE —(Continued).
Educational Department (Mom Bu Sho) Public Works Department (Ko Bu Sho)... Judicial Department (Sbi Ho Sho) Ag-icultural and Cmmercial Department Senate Post Offic
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Bureau for Administering the Hokkaido Industries
Repairs and Engineering
Administration of Cities and Prefectures
Police Expenditure
Shinto Surines...
Penitentiaries
Inland Revenue Bureau
Customs Bureau
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Diplomatic and Consular Services -
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Expenditure for Creation of Public Industries Miscellaneous, Extraordinary
Supplementary R serve for Warlike purposes Genshi Kuri-ire, Reduction of Paper Money
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$38,665 $ 499,844 2,287,144 895,294 217,494 2,529,472 628,867 1,079,982 4,177,962
2,500,840
154,278
647,131
793,047
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552,994
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194,620
7,000,000
Total Estimated Expenditure...... $75,982,562
The domestic debt of Japan in 1884 was, inclusive of paper money in circulation, Capitalized Pension Bonds, &c., &c., 3316,239,941. The Foreign debt of Japan was $8,476,072.
ARMY AND Navy.
The armed force of Japan is divided into the Standing Army, the Reserve, and the Militia, and the troops into five classes. The Standing Army comprises 42 battalions of Infantry, and one of Cavalry, 30 batteries Artillery. 14 companies Engineers, 6 companies of Transport Corps, and 9 companies Marine Artillery. When on a peace footing the Army numbers about 32,300 men, and on a war footing 85,000 men. They are stationed in various parts of the Empire, which is div: 'ed into six military districts, baving headquarters at Toki, Nagoya, Sendai, Ok, Hiroshima, and Kumamoto. Camps are established in 37 places. Not included in the above are the Imperial Guard, composed of about 3,700 picked troops, which bring up
the strength of the regular army, in time of peace, to soine 41,426. The army has been organised on the French system by officers specially selected by the French Government.
The navy of Japan consists of one ironclad frigate, four composite corvettes, one steel cruiser, one ironclad turret ship, four wooden corvettes, three sloops, six gunboats, one despatch vessel, and three training ships, all steamers besides three torpedo boats. The largest of these ships, the ironclad frigate Fu-so, was built by Messrs. Samuda, Brothers, at Poplar, London, and despatched to Japan in March, 1878. The Fu-so has a burthen of 3,700 tons displacement, with engines of 3,500 horse-power. The ar.nour is from 7 inches to 9 inches in thickness, while the armament consists of four 15-ton and two 53-ton steel breechloaders by Krupp, so arranged as to command every point of the horizon. The second largest ship of the navy is an ironclad corvette, called the Kon-go, constructed at Earle's shipbuilding yard, Hull, after the design of Sir E. J. Reed, and which arrived in Japan in 1879. The Kon-go has a burthen of 2,800 tons displacement, with engines of 2,500 horse-power, and has a belt of armour 4 inches thick. The arma- ment consists of 12 Krupp guns, capable of throwing steel shells of 142 pounds. The Hi-yei, a sister ship to the Kon-go, was also built at Hull, and arrived in Japan in 1878. The latest addition to the navy is the Tsukushi-kan, which was built in England to the order of the Chilean Government and subsequently purchased by Japan. She steams 16 knots an hour, and carries two 25 ton breechloading guns,
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